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Frederick Winslow Taylor’s and Henry Fayol’s Philosophy: An Overview
Introduction
This essay introduce the Taylor’s philosophy, also called Taylorism and Scientific Management, and Fayol’s Philosophy, also called Fayolism and Administrative Management about their foundation, development, main content, effectiveness as well as their advantages and disadvantages. The difference between these two kinds of management theory would be indicated below.
Taylor’s Philosophy
Scientific management is a theory focusing on optimizing and simplifying jobs to efficiently increase productivity. It is also called Taylorism, based on the US engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) who published The Principles of Scientific Management in 1909, where he believed scientifically optimizing the working way was more productive than making labour work as hard as they could.
One of the essential elements of Taylor’s Philosophy is scientific decision making (Edwin A. Locke, 1982, pp.14-22), which is proposed in contrast to the traditional unscientific management and rule of thumb. Another important element of Taylor’s Philosophy is to advocate the mental revolution and the interest consistency between the labour and manager.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, the classical managerialist of America, developed the scientific management in the early of 20th century. Therefore, people regarded him as the father of scientific management and also named this thought Taylorsim, named after Frederick Winslow Taylor. His theory is influencing and accepted in modern management as well.
It has a micro-approach, which is focusing on determining and optimizing the productivity of individual jobs rather than overall organization (Bruno Dyck，Mitchell Neubert,2009,p.39), because it is restricted to factory only. Since Taylor stranded from the supervisory viewpoint and tried to increase productivity at operation level, he spent many efforts to study how to improve efficiency and eliminate various types of
Introduction
This essay introduce the Taylor’s philosophy, also called Taylorism and Scientific Management, and Fayol’s Philosophy, also called Fayolism and Administrative Management about their foundation, development, main content, effectiveness as well as their advantages and disadvantages. The difference between these two kinds of management theory would be indicated below.
Taylor’s Philosophy
Scientific management is a theory focusing on optimizing and simplifying jobs to efficiently increase productivity. It is also called Taylorism, based on the US engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) who published The Principles of Scientific Management in 1909, where he believed scientifically optimizing the working way was more productive than making labour work as hard as they could.
One of the essential elements of Taylor’s Philosophy is scientific decision making (Edwin A. Locke, 1982, pp.14-22), which is proposed in contrast to the traditional unscientific management and rule of thumb. Another important element of Taylor’s Philosophy is to advocate the mental revolution and the interest consistency between the labour and manager.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, the classical managerialist of America, developed the scientific management in the early of 20th century. Therefore, people regarded him as the father of scientific management and also named this thought Taylorsim, named after Frederick Winslow Taylor. His theory is influencing and accepted in modern management as well.
It has a micro-approach, which is focusing on determining and optimizing the productivity of individual jobs rather than overall organization (Bruno Dyck，Mitchell Neubert,2009,p.39), because it is restricted to factory only. Since Taylor stranded from the supervisory viewpoint and tried to increase productivity at operation level, he spent many efforts to study how to improve efficiency and eliminate various types of