Business

    Frederick Winslow Taylor was one of the theorists  who started the Scientific Management Movement. In fact, he was the one who published “The principles of Scientific Management” in 1909.

    His main philosophy was that all workers were motivated by money and hence, he had put forward the idea of “a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work”.  In other words, the more productive  the worker is the more his pay should be. This will therefore encourage the worker to work as efficiently as possible. Taylor’s theory did not stop here and he developed four principles of scientific management. These principles are also known as “ Taylorism”.

    Although Taylorism is not practiced in a true sense today scientific management provided may contributions to the enhancement of management practice. Thanks to Frederic Winslow Taylor there has been the introduction of a systematic selection and training procedures and also the encouragement of systematic organizational structure.