Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor born March 20, 1856, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management and was one of the first management consultants. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era. Taylor was involved in breaking down the components of manual tasks in manufacturing environments. He would do this by timing each movement so that there could be a 'best way' to perform each task. This type of management was particularly relevant to performance driven projects.
Scientific management breakdown:
In relation to Event Management within the Music Industry, Taylor's theory is directed towards increasing productivity and efficiency, this is a good theory to carry out when running events. Being productive when creating an event is crucial to the events success, it is best to figure out all the small details first which will then pursue into greater details that will bring the whole event together. By Taylor timing movements to receive a better quality of work, I would say this is in relation to a running schedule within the event taking place.
Scientific management breakdown:
- develop a science for each operation to replace opinion and rule of thumb
- determine accurately from the science the correct time and methods for each job (time and motion studies)
- set up a suitable organisation to take all responsibility from the workers except that of the actual job performance
- select and train the workers (in the manner described above)
- accept that management itself be governed by the science deployed for each operation and surrender its arbitrary powers over the workers, i.e. cooperate with them.
- stop worrying about the divisions of the fruits of production between wages and profits.
- share in the prosperity of the firm by working in the correct way and receiving wage increases.
- give up their idea of time wasting and co-operate with the management in developing the science
- accept that management would be responsible for determining what was done and how
- agree to be trained in new methods where applicable
- its rational approach to the organisational work enables tasks and procedures to be measured with a considerable degree of accuracy
- measurement of paths and processes provide useful information on which to base improvements in working methods, plant design, etc
- improving work methods brought enormous increases in productivity
- it enabled employees to be paid by results and to take advantage of incentive payments
- it stimulated management into adopting a more positive role in leadership at shop floor level.
- it contributed to major improvements in physical working conditions for employees
- it provided the formation for modern work studies
- it reduced the worker's role to that of a rigid adherence to methods and procedures over which he/she had no discretion
- it led to increased fragmentation of work due to its emphasis on divisional labour
- it generated an economically based approach to the motivation of employees by linking pay to geared outputs
- it put the planning and control of workplace activities exclusively in the hands of the managers
- it ruled out any realistic bargaining about wage rates since every job was measured and rated 'scientifically'
In relation to Event Management within the Music Industry, Taylor's theory is directed towards increasing productivity and efficiency, this is a good theory to carry out when running events. Being productive when creating an event is crucial to the events success, it is best to figure out all the small details first which will then pursue into greater details that will bring the whole event together. By Taylor timing movements to receive a better quality of work, I would say this is in relation to a running schedule within the event taking place.