The Practicality of Scientific Management

Abstract

Frederick Taylor is known as the “father of Scientific Management.” Scientific management is a mode of management that reached peak popularity in the early 1900s and still has an impact on management today. The scientific management approach is to break jobs into their simplest elements and determine the most efficient ways to do each task involved in a job. One way we still see scientific management today is in the practices of the UPS delivery company—famous for routing trucks with no left turns and for specific procedures as to how drivers are to enter and exit their vehicles, carry their keys, and notify people of package deliveries.