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ORGA 330 - Organization Management Assignment - Taylorism

   

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Running head: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTManagement and Organizations in Global Environment Student NameUniversity nameAuthor Name

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTTaylorism and FordIntroduction1.Taylorism is mainly focused on maximizing the organizational profit by controlling thelabor force. The Taylorist practice treats money as the primary concern and everythingelse as secondary (Nyland, Bruce and Burns 2014). That is the primary reason that it hasbeen losing its relevance today’s world. Most organizations in the developed world haveabandoned the practice of Taylorism in their business. The workers in contemporaryAustralia, America or Europe do not engage with original Taylorist practice. This meansTaylorism is not rejected totally by all the organizations, it still exists but in a differentform. Most companies implement the Taylorist strategies in combination with othereffective business strategies (Waring 2006). However the original method of moneycentric method is not applicable in many cases. The charity organizations do not engagein Taylorist practice. However sometimes Australian or American companies applyTaylorism in their work force. If in the previous year the organization performed poorlyor the current labor force are not producing as per the requirement then this method canbe useful. 2.The Call Centre business is an area where the Taylorism is stile applied successfully. Theidea of Taylorism is based upon constant monitoring and controlling the labor force inorder to increase the productivity. In this method the labors are almost mechanized and

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTcreativity or freedom is not much appreciated by the employers. In the Indian Call Centrebusiness the use of Taylorism can be a good example (Sinha and Gabriel 2016). There theleadership controls the employees through constant monitoring and decides what exactlythey will be doing. 3.In countries like Dubai, India or China the leadership of the organization has to managelarge number of labors. The time and motion management of the Taylorist scientificmanagement is applied in few organizations there. Like McDonalds operate under theTaylorist method in such countries where large number of customers are served in a veryshort time (Babajana and Webber 2015)

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