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Discuss the extent to which the principles of "Scientific management" (F.W.Taylor) are still relevant to modern organizations.
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Robert Thornborough People and Organizations Discuss the extent to which the principles of "Scientific management" (F.W.Taylor) are still relevant to modern organizations. At the beginning of the Second World War, Taylorism "disappeared" and was replaced with another form of work organization: Fordism. Fordism appeared when Ford started producing Model T cars but by basing his production upon Taylorist lines. Scientific management was still used; there was an explicit distinction between management and workforce, each employee had a specific task to do and their task was timed. Fordism seems more closely attached to the production system of modern organizations than Taylorism does, since it includes Taylor's ideas but by also introducing new ones, and this is why this essay will be centred on the link between Fordism and today's production system: Toyotism. At the end of the 1980s, Fordism, which had been at the base of economic growth in the country for thirty years,...
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