The objectives of scientific management are:
- To assess industrial and market tendencies and to regularize continuous operation.
- To earn a larger profit from a given expenditure on man and materials by minimizing waste work and waste movements.
- To provide healthy and safe working environment.
- To build character through proper work.
- To develop self-realization and self-satisfaction among workers thereby improving their morale.
- To give better opportunity for individual through scientific methods of working.
- To ensure a happier and social life for workers.
- To promote justice among the workers by treating them equal.
- To perform planned and balanced operations.
The time and motion study of scientific management had created awareness of using the right tools and minimizing waste movements while performing a work. Further, the scientific management also insisted the scientific selection of workers and made the management to realize the training needs to do a job. The scientific management suggested the work design, that is, one best way of doing a job. The scientific management had developed a rational approach to solve the problems of an organization and contributed to the professionalization of management.
But Taylor’s concept of monitory benefits to motivate workers did not fetch expected results. Taylor’s time and motion study were not accepted as entirely scientific because there is no “one best way” of doing a job. Separation of ‘planning’ and ‘doing’ functions coupled with greater specialization led to the greater monotony of work.
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