BUSN 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Job Enrichment, Cognitive Distortion, Goal Setting

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUSN 1100
• Professor: Crittenden William

Document Summary

Inventor: frederick winslow taylor, american engineer and inventor. Principle: taylor"s principles of scientific management assumed that employees are primarily motivated by money and that productivity could be improved by setting output and efficiency targets related to pay. Best for: mass production careers with more physical output, specifically factories or jobs that are done step by step to create a products. Breaking down different aspects of a job or task and assigning different people to each particular part of the work (like cells in the body working together for a whole) Differentiated piecework ( reward receive a higher rate if they exceed that level. ) workers are paid a standard level of output and. Manager"s role to plan, direct and control. Man plans to do as little as possible, seeking to only maximise their economic rewards. Taylor promoted the use of division labour which helped in specializing the production process to improve efficiency and output.