F.W. TAYLOR

He is known as the father of scientific management,he developed the discovery of the one best way to perform a task(determining the optimum daily pace of the task in a prescribed peace and reward successful completion of the task by using the incentive wage system. taylor  instillled discipline in management by displaying remarkable insights to the behaviour of workers.

                                         
- He was mainly pre- occupied with the operational efficiency of organizations
- He saw man as an economic man to be induced to work effectively through wage incentives established by time and motion study. He is best  known for his work on time and motion study
- He believed that the average man had to be motivated to work because of his laziness.
- To him, the best incentive to work is money since money satisfies the material needs of man.
- His main concern was on increasing efficiency in production, lowering costs, raising profits and increasing workers' pay through higher productivity
- He emphasised standard practises, standards of performance, breaking complex jobs into simple and routine ones and the development of specialized tools to increase the efficiency of operators.


Taylor advocated the following principles:
1. That all managers must be trained to use scientific principles
2. Managers should select and train their workers
3. Managers should divide work responsibility evenly between themselves and their surbodinates
4. Managers should cooperate with workers to ensure the application of scientific principle in work.



            Contribution to scientific Management
1.He placed more emphasis on the rational and resourceful thinking on the part of management.
2.Emphasis on planning and control of production
3. He produced a stop to the soldiering of workers
4.Development of cost Accounting
5.Development of incentive plans of wage pament based on systematic study of work.