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Ford and Taylor Scientific Management | HI6005 Assignment

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Holmes Institute Sydney

   

Management and Organisations in a Global Environment (HI6005)

   

Added on  2020-03-04

Ford and Taylor Scientific Management | HI6005 Assignment

   

Holmes Institute Sydney

   

Management and Organisations in a Global Environment (HI6005)

   Added on 2020-03-04

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Topic 1: “Ford and Taylor Scientific Management(Edited)” Ford and Taylor set up early in the 20th century the Ford Motor Company. The Company had various labour related issues, which deterred the overall production process leading to lower profitability[ CITATION She151 \l 1033 ]. Ford became troubled with the individual workers’ productivity and wanted to devise methods that could enhance performance. While watching the performance procedure, there were several stages that were ascertained that could be improved. Henry Ford along with Alexander Malcomson launched Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1903. The Company initially manufactured automobile parts. The challenge faced in the production process was in its assembling, where the body of the car had to be fixed in a stationery process, as workers had to bring individual parts adding them to the vehicle. This process not only consumed time but also was expensive, which made mass production almost impossible[ CITATION 21907 \l 1033 ]. Ford wanted to incorporate scientific thoughts and principles in management that can lead to reducing time and increasing effectiveness with which a worker performs his activities. His principles of management encircled several mechanical and engineering theories that can create effective management at workplace. His along with Taylor’s theories were focused on management principles that can led to organisation’s achieve their goals and objectives. Ford wanted to diagnose a way in which mass production of automobiles can be done, in a shorter time span, to make the process more profitable. He then experimented with the concept of conveyor belt, that could easily transport parts from one worker to another. This technique applied hence achieves tremendous output and performance, enhancing productivity of laborers. Laborers could not waste time and they needed to take permission from supervisor for taking any2 | P a g e
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breaks[ CITATION Unk17 \l 1033 ]. Formation of trade unions was not encouraged and any worker, who created any sort of trouble was immediately removed from the Company. Workers became exhausted from working at the factory, and could not strive to perform. Ford applied another method for gaining productivity for employees, as assembly lines was creating enormous profitability for the Company with mass production of automobiles, Ford decided to increase payof workers. Even if workers left the organisation, there was hosts of applicants ready to work at the factory every day[ CITATION Spr071 \l 1033 ]. This created high productivity and no-shortage of workers at the factory. Each component of the job was broken down into smaller components such that one worker was liable to perform a small task. This saved time and create large volumeof vehicles. Frederick Winslow Taylor often helped Ford chalk out relevant management techniques that could help in managing and organizing with the Company[ CITATION Tan111 \l 1033 ]. Taylor founded several management theories for workers. 3 | P a g e
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