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Business Management-- Semester Exam Review (Taylor & Gilbreth's)

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The Father of Scientific ManagementFrederick Taylor
As a new boss, Taylor struggled for three years to get the men that worked for him todo what he considered “a fair day’s work”.
Deliberately restricting output.soldiering
One of Taylor’s most controversial proposals was togive rest breaks to factory workers doing physical labor
Before Taylor, supervisors were often hired on the basis offavoritism and nepotism
Taylor believed that one of the best ways to align management and employees was touse incentives to motivate workers
Result of managers selectively implementing the principles of Scientific ManagementRather than sharing performance gains with workers through bonuses as Taylor had advocated, the managers simply increased the amount of work that each worker was expected to do
Result of managers selectively implementing the principles of Scientific ManagementWorkers also learned that increases in performance often meant fewer jobs and a greater threat of layoffs, because fewer workers were needed
Result of managers selectively implementing the principles of Scientific Managementthe specialized, simplified jobs were often monotonous and repetitive, and many workers became dissatisfied with their jobs
Discover one best way to do a job, determine the pace, train people to do the job properly, and reward their performance by using an incentive pay system.Scientific Management
Which management theorist believed in specialization of labor, that employees become masters of specific tasks?Frederick Taylor
The Gilbreth's goal of filming workers wasto maximize the efficiency with which each individual task was performed so that gains across tasks would add up to enormous savings of time and effort
Because most film cameras were hand-cranked, and thus erratic in their film speed, Frank Gilbreth invented themicro chronometer
With whom did the Gilbreths work alongside from 1907 to 1914?Frederick Taylor
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth helped make contributions to the principles ofScientific management
Frank Gilbreth first became interested in standardization and method studies during his time as abrick layer
The end result of motion studies helped to increaseworker efficiency and productivity
Motion studies were focused onStudying the movements of workers to isolate effective movements from ineffective ones


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Flower Mound High School
TX

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