National efficiency

A detailed Summary of National efficiency

Well, I'd like to begin my paper with some words of the ex-president Roosvelt whom by that time said, "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question of national efficiency." The quote was taken from the book called "Scientific Management" by Taylor, from whom I'll be taken most of the information, so he is consider the father of scientific management and his book, his bible. By efficiency we may understand, "The ratio of the effective or useful output to the total input in any system." And that is exactly what everything is all about, efficiency and effectiveness without caring about the ambit, it is what we look at home, work and in a wider sense, government. Get as much as possible, putting as less effort as possible, but we have to remember everything has got a price.

But now, the question arises. Is scientific management effective and efficient providing a solution managing others efforts? Well, the answer has to be yes, definitely. Federick Winslow Taylor a managerial guru developed a technique that is more effective in productivity, as well as in worker relations that any other management.

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It is possible to say that the roots of scientific managing are planning and transforming workers tasks into science. Managers shall give advice and behave as friendly and as helpful as possible, always planning and teaching. Furthermore through observation and picking up data placed a worker where he is best suited to be. Quoting Taylor once again, "This close intimate co-operation between the management and the men is the essence of modern scientific" management. These changes will produce an increase in the wages. This increase, when performed with intimate co-operation with the management will remove all causes for soldiering providing us with a powerful weapon to handle other people efforts.

The change from another kind of management to scientific management should not only be concerned with things like speed, movements, formulas and laws, but also, and very importantly with a change in the mental attitude. As Taylor would put it in a testimony he had to give before the 'Special House Committee' in 1912. "Scientific management involves a complete mental revolution on the part of the workingman engaged in any particular establishment or industry." This change in mental attitude and in habits can be brought slowly and sometimes through lessons. Lets remember that managers have the duty of teach and prepare the employees. As an implied task, maybe the word may not sound very refined, but it is a truth and a 'brainwash' is necessary.

One should think that it should not be very difficult for workers, to understand that "maximum prosperity can only exist as a result of maximum productivity", but the truth is that workers do as little as possible. This phenomenon is called "soldiering", and it is widely employed. For instance, in Mexico it is very common to hire a person, only for verifying that the workers are doing what they are supposed to do, the so often called supervisors. This implies another salary to pay and what is worse, the impossibility of reaching a high prosperity that will enable both employers and employees find this extraordinary efficient state.

Urwich and Brech; The making of scientific management; Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons; Great Britain 1963.

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