TAYLOR THEORY

Motivational Theories

By: Felipe Noboa, Ma. Cris Molina, Valentina Jaramillo, Camila Noboa, Isabella Merlo, Emilia Muñoz.

TAYLOR THEORY

History

"What the workmen want from employers beyond anything else, is higher wages".

• It was created by Frederick Winslow Taylor, an American engineer that defended fair payment systems.

• Priciples of scientific management: employees are motivated by money and that can improve their productivity and efficiency.

• This theory was highly influential during the 1920s.

How does it work?

Taylor promotes the use of division of labor, which means breaking down different aspects of a job and assigning different people to do them.

This process is called specialization, which helps improve efficiency and output production. Workers are scientifically selected based on their abilities.

It is the manager's job to plan, direct, and control how every individual task should be completed.

Taylor defended this method because because, according to him, if an employee worked more than his standard, then he should receive a higher compensation or salary. This is an incentive to reward productive workers.

Motivation for employees

Analysis

VS

• Increase of production, managers set targets to achieve.
• Managers are in control of their workforce (hierarchy system).
• Allows large scale of production and reduces per-unit costs due to efficiency.
• The performance-based payment system being introduced, efforts are recognized.
• Reduced inaccuracy, the employee becomes an expert in performing and specific task.

• Ignores the non physical contributions of workers (mental output).
• Studies have shown that people are not only and simply motivated by money.
• Does not focus on non-financial factors that motivate people.
• Fails to recognize that workers can be innovative and independent thinkers.
• Assigns repetitive and monotonous tasks that leads to job dissatisfaction.

Benefits

Drawbacks

Examples

Nowadays the company still uses a system of scientific management incorporating the theory into their practice. Every worker has been divided into separated tasks such as: burger-making process, taking orders, customer service and handling payments.

Henry Ford adopted the Taylor theory by dividing jobs into small parts so that workers would perform few movements over and over again. In this way everyone would do the same job with high precision.

Mc. Donalds

Ford Model T Car

Studies have demonstrated that the Taylor method is highly influencial and relevant to businesses since people will work better if they are highly and fairly paid. This approach is efficient with low-skilled or mass production employees who are more interested in the payment.

Conclusion

THANK YOU

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