Rohan is desirous of setting up a small factory to manufacture packing materials. He planned to use logical approach and take every decision with factor and figure, with proper reasoning rather than relying an Hit or Miss method.
State the principle of Scientific Management used by Rohan.

Harpreet is desirous of setting up a small factory to manufacture different kinds of ecofriendly packaging materials. He proposes to adopt a logical approach to his business rather than hit and trial method as he knows that this can result in tremendous saving of human energy as well as wastage of time and materials. He plans to adopt paternalistic style of management in practice in order to avoid any kind of class-conflict that may emerge between him and the workers. Moreover, he plans to seek the opinion of his workers before taking any important decisions and also offers incentives to them for providing valuable suggestions for the business. In context of the above case: Identify and explain the various principle of scientific management that Harpreet plans to apply in his business.

In the factory set-up/system, Taylor concentrated on improving the performance of the managerial figure with whome the workers are in face-to-face comtact on a daily basis. He is the pivot around whom revolves the entire production planning, implementation and control. In fact, Taylor indentified a list of qualities of that person such as intelligence, education, tact, grit, judgement, special knowledge, manual dexterity, and energy, honesty and good health. Taylor found that no single person could fit them all. This prompted him to suggest a technique of scientific management which is an extansion of the principle of division of work and specialisation to shop floor. This concept was extended to the lowest level of the shop floor. Identify the technique scientific management discussed in the above paragraph.