123 School Work

Evolution of Management Theory In the Twentieth Century

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  This paper discusses the different issues involved in Taylorism Frederick Winslow Taylor's theory of scientific management. The paper describes some of the major concepts of Taylorism, and provides a critical review of Taylor's theory, as opposed to other management theories, in the twentieth century. While researching this paper, it occurred to me that today's management theory has gone full circle back to its grassroots of Taylor's scientific management. Taylorism has its origins in the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. So as US manufacturing declines, our trade deficit is mounting, our focus at the present is the service sector of business. In this current era of "profits, profits, and profits" present day management theory has reverted back to aspects of Taylorism within the service sector, as we satisfy our need for immediate gratification. As it sought to "remove all brain work from the shop floor," to control production and workers as if human beings were machines in the earlier part of the twentieth century, globally, I believe there is a resurgence of Taylorism in the twenty first century. (Kanigel 23)
  
  Management theory has come a long way from the rationalistic mechanism of Frederick Winslow Taylor. There are many relevant theories that developed in the twentieth century. As a new era dawned at the turn of the twentieth century, the Industrial Age needed more efficient management techniques...