Question

The text states, “Scientific management presented a system designed to control organizations and make them less wasteful and, as is often forgotten, more equitable in terms of work and reward. Scientific management appeared to offer a simple system of control, a one best way of managing, which is probably why so many managers adopted it gratefully”.

Discuss your thoughts if you feel ultimately scientific management has made organizations less wasteful or not.

Answer 1

Scientific management is mainly a theory of management which evaluates and synthesizes workflows. The main objective of this approach is to improve the economic efficiency of the organizations especially when it comes to the productivity of the manpower. It can be seen as the first attempt to implement science to the engineering of processes and to the management activities.

In my opinion, this approach has really contributed a lot in eliminating wasteful practices in the organizational processes and make the organization a more efficient one. The focus remains on finding the new methods of removing the wasteful processes, activities and the newly sophisticated manners which can be employed to improve the productivity of the employees, thus this approach has really helped the management to make the firms less wasteful. Different methods and processes have been developed which improve the efficiency of manpower, removing wastages and focusing on how to improve a given process. All these things really convenience me that this approach is really a helpful method of making the organization less wasteful and more productive.