Scientific management is a field of study which was started by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915). In his honor, the domain is sometimes called Taylorism. Taylor believed he could improve work in a company and its management through scientific procedures. This would solve the social problems in the company and guarantee wealth for all people. Very important components are:
- Making a difference between planning work and its execution
- Studying how long a process step takes to get estimates for the time it should take
- Wages based on productivity
- Prescribing the daily workload
It was mainly used for manufacturing processes, where workers operated machines to get a product. Today, the main problems seen with this approach is that the workers were treated like machines and not like human beings. It is the division of labour pushed to its extreme.
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- Outline of management
- Index of management articles
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By type
of organization |
- Academic
- Association
- Business
- Court
- Healthcare
- Intelligence
- Military
- Public
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By focus (within
an organization) | | By scope | Strategic
(top-level) |
- Capability
- Capital
- Change
- Communication
- Financial
- Innovation
- Legal
- Performance
- Risk
- Systems
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By activity or
department
managed | | Line |
- Marketing
- Operations/production
- Sales
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| Staff |
- Accounting
- Office
- Records
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By aspect or
relationship |
- Customer relationship
- Engineering
- Logistics
- Perception
- Supply chain
- Talent
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| By problem | |
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| By resource |
- Environmental resource
- Field inventory
- Human resources
- Information
- Information technology
- Knowledge
- Land
- Materials
- Skills
- Technology
- Time
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Management
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Methods
and approaches |
- Adhocracy
- Collaborative method
- Distributed
- Earned value management
- Evidence-based management
- Full Range of Leadership Model
- Management by objectives
- Management style
- Macromanagement
- Micromanagement
- Scientific management
- Social entrepreneurship
- Team building
- Virtual management
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Management skills
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Pioneers and
scholars | |
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| Education |
- Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering
- Business school
- Certified Business Manager
- Chartered Management Institute
- Critical management studies
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| Degrees | |
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| Other |
- Administration
- Collaboration
- Corporate governance
- Executive compensation
- Management consulting
- Management control
- Management cybernetics
- Management development
- Management fad
- Management system
- Managerial economics
- Managerial psychology
- Managerialism
- Organization development
- Organizational behavior management
- Pointy-haired Boss
- Scope creep
- Williamson's model of managerial discretion
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