How do the techniques of scientific management improve the productivity of workers?
The technique of scientific management has helped in improving the productivity of the workers in the following manners.
Explain the importance of management principles
The importance of management principles can be understood by considering the following
points:
Explain the nature of management principles.
Nature of management principles is described as follows:
An entrepreneur wants to start his business in backward area because government gives many incentives and rebates in taxes. Which results in low cost and he will be able to sell the product at low prices. There he will be able to get large area by deforestation. Which values are being affected here?
(i) Deprivation of environment from deforestation
(ii) Availability of goods at low cost
(iii) Development of backward areas
(iv) Employment opportunities increase in backward area.
Management is a science like physics or chemistry. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons in support of your answer.
This statement is wrong. Although management can be called science but not as an exact or pure science like Physics or Chemistry.
It is important to apply the characteristics of science to management in order to find out whether management is a science or not. Following are the main points:
(i) Systematised Body of Knowledge: It is necessary for science to be a systematised body of knowledge. Management is also a systematised body of knowledge because it has its own theory and principle which are developed by the management experts after years of research.
(ii) Principles Based on Experiments: After applying this characteristic of science to management, we find that development of management took years for the collection offacts, their analysis and experiments.
(iii) Universal Validity: Scientific principles are based on truth and they can be applied atevery time and in every situation. Thus, its universal application is possible. In the field of management too, managerial knowledge and principles of management are considered to be based on truth and they, too, can be applied anywhere and in every situation.
Conclusion: The subject matter of management is 'Human Being' who is an intelligent and sensitive being and whose behaviour or conduct changes according to the changing situations. Therefore, no permanent principles like the principles of physics and chemistry can be enunciated in relation to his conduct or behaviour. Clearly the science of management cannot be called a natural or pure science but it should be described as an Applied Science or Inexact Science.