Scientific Principles of Business Management

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This paper explains the basic concepts behind the Scientific Principles of Business Management. The author defines the terms, discusses its effects on the workers and productivity and relates the perceived worker motivations used in this model. The paper contrasts this model of management with some of the concepts behind the Behavioral or Human Resources concept of management.

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"Frederick Winslow Taylor created the Scientific Principles of Business Management. His idea was to redesign the workers' role in business by modeling it on the design of a machine. In Taylor's format for business organization, workers should mimic the machine parts, to be silent and operating without question. Workers were to be inexpensive and easily replaced or interchangeable as well (Wertheim, par. 6). He determined that there were four principles by which workers should operate: specialization, unity of command, span of control, and organization by purpose. This paper discusses his principles of scientific management, with a focus on how it affected workers and their productivity. The discussion includes the perception of how this form of management motivates workers in their job performance. Finally, it contrasts with the Behavioral Model of management."

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