Scientific Management Approach and its Implications in Modern Organizations

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Scientific management approach translates into modern organization setting and its
implications
Present business world has been manifest by expert management which is categorized by
optimist strategy approaches in order to achieve the specific purpose of the organization. It is
mainly connected with the workforce in order to increase their capability by offering them an
innovative work environment, motivation, and full management support. These elements can be
linked with the attributes of the Taylor approach which established the scientific management
approach in the late twenties. Taylor work was an important contribution to increasing the
efficiency of the workforce in the organization (Nonaka and Von Krogh, 2009). Earlier when a
worker enters into factor they used to come with their own work mindset which was completed
change with by Taylor with the help of this scientific management approach. Taylor approach
was simply focusing on supervising the workforce throughout the working hours in order to
improve performance. But in present business practices his idea cannot be totally accepted
because workers are also human they are not a machine. On average workers spent almost eight
hours working in the organization and in this situation they are in need of some realization within
office hours in order to feel fresh and overcome work pressure. Present organization totally
disapproved that fact which was connecting with the scientific management approach that
workforces are motivated by rewards in the form of wages (Fotopoulos and Psomas, 2009). But
in reality, reward in the form of wages has its limitation in motivating employee performance. In
fact, reorganization and a positive work environment are the two main motivating factors which
motivate the employee performance in the present business world which is full of competition.
Taylors this concept was proven wrong by Hawthorne experiment which proved that people feel
motivated when they are working in a group which is full of support and positivity instead of
working for wage. Wage factor can help in completing the particular task but lack power in
motivating the performance of an individual. Therefore, performance of the employee is totally
dependent on the workplace environment and not on these rewards in the form wage (Cortina et
al., 2013). In present business practice, if this Taylor scientific management approach is being
applied in the business practice. Instead of improving the performance of the workforce, it will
reduce the performance of the workforce. In fact, this approach will create a work environment
which will be full of pressure and stress. In this approach, workforce will feel that they are just
treated as machine and management is not considered them as part of the organization. The
pressure of work will be so high that workforce will not be able to develop a balance between
their professional and personal life (McCambridge, Witton and Elbourne, 2014). This will trigger
a negative feeling in the workforce and will completely impact their performance in a negative
way. In addition to this, it will surely generate an environment of conflict which will be
impossible to manage by the organization and will have to bear heavy loss in terms of high
employee turnover ratio.