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Currently Used Concepts of Scientific Management

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For these questions be careful to do more than state your "opinion." Be sure you can fully explain and support "how" and "why" you arrived at your conclusions.

You probably have read in more than one textbook that scientific management is no longer the mainstream model of human resource management.

What concepts of scientific management are useful today? Is there any remaining use of time and motion studies, of standard times, or of man-machine interaction studies?

Based on your (perhaps limited) work experiences, or based on your interview of a person working in a manufacturing or quasi-manufacturing (fast food production) job, are there still elements of these tools of scientific management?

If they still exist, are they "dinosaurs" waiting for extinction, or are they the evolved "birds" that have appropriate use in the workplace?

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1) What concepts of scientific management are useful today?
The concepts of scientific management which are useful today are in making workplace methods run more proficiently, recognizing the best practices in completing work, and leveling work flow. Numerous contemporary management concepts such as quality circles, reengineering, and total quality management (TQM) are formulated on a foundation using the principles of scientific management. Breaking processes down into elementary steps for improvement reflects principles of scientific management. As does management and employee training, a vital aspect of today's workplace was a fundamental component of scientific management. The principles of scientific management can ...

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