Scientific Management Flashcards

Flashcards about Scientific Management

What is scientific management?

The application of engineering logic to the organization of people.

Who is credited with the development of scientific management?

Frederick Taylor

What are the key characteristics of Scientific Management?

Short, repetitive work cycles; prescribed task sequences; separation of task conception from execution; and motivation based on economic rewards.

What does Taylor mean by the term 'soldiering'?

Workers deliberately working at less than their full capacity.

What is 'natural soldiering' according to Taylor?

Workers were naturally lazy and worked as little as possible.

What is 'systematic soldiering' according to Taylor?

Workers coordinated and cooperated with each other in order to restrict output.

What are the key principles of Scientific Management?

A clear division of tasks, scientific methods, scientific selection, training, and surveillance.

What is the use of scientific methods in Scientific Management?

To determine the best way of doing a job.

What does a task specify in Taylor's view?

Specifies what is to be done, how it is to be done, and the exact time allowed for doing it.

What is the scientific study of work leading to according to Taylorism?

The scientific study of work leading to its division into minute and regularized movements.

According to Taylorism, what motivates workers?

workers are primarily motivated by wages/monetary rewards.

What separation is involved with Taylorism?

Separation of the conception of work from its execution.

What is Foxconn's official company name?

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd

When was Foxconn established and by whom?

Terry Gou in 1974

What is Foxconn's position in the technology manufacturing industry?

One of the largest technology manufacturing firms in the world

Where is Foxconn headquartered?

Taiwan

What are the working conditions like at Foxconn according to reports?

Gruelling workloads and humiliating punishments.

What are the key issues for workers at Foxconn factories?

Intimidation, exhaustion, and labor rights violations.

What are the effects of working at Foxconn?

Hands continue to twitch at night, or mimic motions when walking down the street.

What are some of the measures Foxconn has taken to address worker stress?

Putting up safety nets and opening stress rooms.

What new field of management is Foxconn leading in?

Suicide management

In Scientific Management , what is the mass of workers gain from?

The decline in workers' command over the labor process is compensated by increasing command on the part of managers and engineers

What did Cummings et al encourage us to be skeptical of?

Efficiency-obsessed and mechanical manager

Many forms of management have followed what trajectory?

Scientific rationalization of work

What are Taylor's core ideas of seeking an efficient way of work through?

recruiting, training, and organizing employee

Why did Foxconn workers informed that they had only one day off every three weeks?

To keep up with the production schedule

In Scientific Management, not only does their skill fall in an absolute sense

Losing craft and traditional abilities without gaining new abilities adequate to compensate the loss

How does Science affect the workers ability in Scientific Management?

The more science is incorporated into the labor process, the less the worker understands of the process.

Cummings et al (2017) encourage us to be skeptical of the narrative that Taylor as one who was?

responding to the social pressures and concerns of the time by trying to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people using the fewest possible resources.

In the contemporary world, we can even see the principles of “scientific management” at play in society in general, particularly in?

our preoccupation with efficiency.