Evaluating Scientific Management Theory: Design of Work Analysis

This essay provides a critical analysis of scientific management theory and its influence on the design of work in modern organizations. It debates the strengths and weaknesses of the model, particularly its impact on employee engagement, innovation, and overall organizational efficiency. The analysis explores how scientific management, while promoting efficiency and standardization, can potentially limit employee creativity and autonomy. The essay further examines how organizations like McDonald's and Toyota apply scientific management principles to ensure quality and reduce waste, while also considering the potential negative impacts on employee motivation and well-being, such as increased absenteeism and dissatisfaction. Ultimately, the essay concludes that scientific management can have both positive and negative effects, depending on how it is implemented and the extent to which it allows for employee input and innovation.

Scientific Management
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Analysis of Scientific management
It is analysed that tool of scientific management model has a great impact on the overall
design of work within an organisation which can be limited through the underutilization of
workers and can causes hindrance in the overall ability of its application. Although scientific
management can be beneficial for organisation such as the armed forces due to its ability to
provide specific orders to be followed without any change being implemented or having the
aspect of contrast. The appropriate elements for the benefit of scientific management can be the
armed forces. On the other hand various organisation promote changes and innovation within
their establishments (Alkhanak and Lee, 2018). It involves the influence of scientific
management over the design of work in modern organisations and refer to both strengths and
weaknesses of model with its relation to organisational design. This essay related to provide the
critical analysis of the scientific management their and provide the debate process for managing
and addressing the different concepts of the chosen theory.
The analysis of the essay helps in understanding the scientific models also have an
influence over the overall design of work through its influence on how employee are trained to
follow specific defined instruction in order to complete task. This causes fragmentation within
the organisation forcing the managers to gain access to total control over the organisation
planning and responsibilities. This leads to the employees to have no involvement relative to
their work and reduces their overall engagement as well as creativity. In addition to this, it
discourages the employees to provide ideas that can help in innovated development of
procedures that can be effective in completing a task. This can cause demotivation of employees
and may lead to reduction in their influenced . Although in organisation where the employees are
provide the opportunity to have creative liberty in order to experiment with their ideas can
greatly included the design of work and direct the attention of workers towards innovation
(Álvarez-Buylla Roces, 2019). This is the process for managing food industry such as the use of
MC Donald as they are not serving to their customer over or undercooked food. It can be said
that this provide the argument and effective growth in managing greater value for money. The
use of scientific management theory is helpful for the organisation to achieve effective process
and applied to the hairnet policies and process to adopt methods for all the food handlers
process. It would be beneficial for managing scientific management for providing wide range of
influencing support to make design of work to increase their quality of work. On the contrary,
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this was summarised that the positive impact of the organisation may become the result of high
formalisation in the organisation and provide wide range of applicabilities at the time of applying
scientific management theory.
Going further, the analysis provided another method or influencing factor which is
determined to manage scientific management concepts to design the work in more effective and
appropriate manner. It would be beneficial for managing and addressing the reduction of
wastage. It further analyse the inefficiencies in the management techniques of the company
which provide the declining and promoting growth of the company. It is analysed that the use of
these scientific methods are able to calculate the ideal way for managing task and activities of
the company to increased output and managing activities in more effective and appropriate ways
(Filion, 2021). It further analyse that the quality management techniques are used to provide
inputs for the growth for managing employees and ensure the quality of work throughout the
manufacturing process. When the companies are having reduction in defective products that
would be lead to the cost money and wastage of raw material in an effective and appropriate
manner. For example, it is analysed that Toyota decided to deals with their incorporating quality
assurance techniques which are related to different issues that prevail into the company. But, the
use of significant reduction and scientific management theory will be applicable to the company
for the successful growth of the business. All of these can be effective and provide the wide
range of applicabilities in an effective and positive ways. The use of an organisational design are
needed to be work and manage span activities over the activities. It further provide the wide
range of applicabilities in an effective and appropriate ways that involved in the quality of work
to assure at all the stages which include production, manager and other basic data. It is analysed
that to control the business operations in easy formats are used to achieve business objectives for
profit maximisation concepts (Gertsik, 2019). As employees are involved in all stages of
production, the managers have increased control over business operations that can easily help in
achieving objectives which involves profit maximisation through reduction in wastage but it also
had a negative impact in the organisation due to more control by top mangers and less freedom
on the part of employees.
Third concept which is analysed through the scientific management theory is to ensure
the employees for managing and following the predetermined nature. It is further used to manage
task to buy different financial incentives in more effective and appropriate way (Tooranloo and
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Saghafi, 2019). It determined that the method of piece of work and involve the process for
managing system are effective for the growth of the company. But on the other hand, when the
company use scientific theory method employees are paid for their fixed rate which are depend
on each unit of the produced. It may create inefficiencies and demotivated staff within the
organisation (Gorelova and Pankratova, 2018). It is further analysed that the Taylor suggested
that the workers should be able to make nature and lazy growth for motivating the financial
benefits in more effective and appropriate ways. Furthermore, the piece rate of the system would
be inappropriate for the workers to allow and able to generate a high growth and income for
more unites and incentives of the company in an effective and appropriate ways. Piece rate
system allows employees to generate high income by producing more units resulting in increase
in efficiency. In context to ASDA, the managers are highly influenced by scientific management
theory and are considering a designed pay system for workers.
In such type of case, it involves limitations from the impact of strategic management
influence on the design of work on organisational design as responsibility of planning and
organisation is transferred to managers which can reduce the ability of workers who have
valuable insight leading to ignoring a resource that can support in developing detailed, specific
and relevant plans in order to benefit business operations (Hollnagel, 2017).
The analysis of helps in understanding Scientific management and why it is considered to
be the theory of management that synthesizes and analyses workflows. Its main objective is to
improve efficiency which involves labour productivity. It was developed by US based engineer
Fredrick Taylor. It involves a total number of five principles. The use of these scientific methods
helps to describe the ideal way of completing a task and choosing best individual for the job
based on their mental and physical abilities and training the employees in order to complete
defined tasks. It also ensures that employees follow tasks by providing financial incentives and
transfer of responsibility from employees to managers (Keeling, 2018). The example for such an
organisation can be Apple where the management encourage their employees to contributes and
have an influence over the design of their work. This allows the employees to develop new ideas
and over come challenges with innovation along with efficient use of time. It can be analysed
that scientific management has an influence on organisation based on their overall structure as it
can reduce the overall influenced on the design of work in an organisation that requires high
level of innovation and maintain a strict design of work where the rules and regulations are strict.
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Influence on the design of work in modern organisation may be limited due to underutilization of
workers due to inability to apply their own discretion while completing their tasks.
As per the concept of procedure of scientific theory, it is argument that the use of this has
been greatly influenced and design to complete the work in an effective and modern
organisational concept. It is analysed for increasing the quality of good and services provided by
the organisation is an effective and appropriate methods to complete the working process and
trained method to follow in an effective manner. This is further determined that the companies
can become more specialised and make repetition of the tasks which are involved in the process.
It is further analyse to complete the working and provide wide range of applicability in an
effective and appropriate manner (Lung, Gaskó and Suciu, 2018). Moreover, the employee's can
make few mistakes in the development of their ideas but these mistakes are relatively less when
compared with the development of correct ideologies which do not impact the long term
management functions. Scientific management model have a major influence on work which
differs in strength while its impact on organisational design. Scientific management is
considered to be the theory of management that synthesizes and analyses workflows and how it
is use to improve efficiency which involves labour productivity and how employees follow tasks
by providing financial incentives and transfer of responsibility from employees to managers. The
impact of scientific management can be positive in areas such as reduction in wastage, improved
quality of services and goods to enhance efficient use of resources.
The scientific management can impact the overall chain of command within an
organisation due to most of the managers focusing on the performance and productivity of
employee's. The lead to the employees to get demotivated and fall under stress. The employees
feel that there are undervalued. This causes employee's to high level of dissatisfaction relative to
their work as they are faced with humiliation are unfairly fined for mistakes along with unkept
promises of benefits. This has the negative impact on the function of the organisation as
employees who are demotivated resist form working as they feel undervalued within the
organisation (Selyutina, 2018). This causes the employees to be absent form work resulting in
increased rate of absenteeism. In addition to this the absence of works has a direct impact on the
overall performance as well as productivity if the organisation impacting its output. Furthermore,
this has a negative impact on the well-being of employee's and allows them to have a negative
behaviour relative to their work as well as the organisation. This causes dysfunctionality within
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the business as their is low rate performance from employee's which negatively impacts the
various operations of the business. Moreover, this results in difficulties related to controlling and
implementing of policies as well as causes hindrance in the accomplishment of goals and
objectives set by the organisation (Thompson and et.al., 2017).
From the above essay it has been analysed that the use of this provided a vital insight the
how scientific management can have both a positive and negative impact on the involvement of
employees ideas and innovation within an organisation and how employees can be both
encourages as well as discourages based on the overall design of work within an organisation.
The proper scientific management can allow an organisation to provide its workers the ability to
have a valuable insight which will lead to development of specific, relevant as well as detailed
plans that are crucial for business operations. In addition to that it involves how the piece rate
pay helps to increase the motivation of employees by support of financial incentives. Moreover,
the influence is reduced in areas that can have a negative effect in certain organisations such as
reduced ability of employees to innovate due to various demotivating factors that arises from
fragmentation of work in the organisation and limited ability to apply own discretion when
involved in the process of completing a task. There is also a detailed information of the existing
peer-reviewed literature on scientific management. In addition to that it involves strengths and
weakness in scientific management.
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