Research Paper on:
Organizations, Motivation, and Taylorism

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own problems and pursue their ends". This may be a cynical view of organisation, however, it does recognise the fact that the individual motivation of employees will determine the interaction.  If the role of Taylorism and scientific management is considered in conjunction with this statement there is a merging of the views. To understand the way that this a may  be interpreted in the context of Taylorism, the motivation that Taylor assumed to be present in his workers needs to be considered and the results of his models should  be considered. Prior to the industrial revolution, division of labour was based on craft, with craftsmen being granted complete discretion on the  method and manner of completion of the task (both the design and execution). Post industrial revolution the sub-division of labour appears, this included the breaking down of jobs into component  parts, each given to individuals responsible for that part of the task only (Huczyniski et al, 1996). Adam Smith author of The Wealth of Nations claimed that this division of  labour created the wealth in the United Kingdom. Charles Babbage agreed with Smith, calling it The Great Principle of Economical Reproduction (Huczyniski et al, 1996).  The next step from this sub-division of labour was scientific management, founded by Frederick Winslow Taylor, a perfectionist who hated waste of any sort. Taylor argued  that even though tasks had been broken down into component parts workers still retained discretion on how to perform tasks. This discretion he argued gave the workers power and that  workers with this discretion would under work and using the control which they gained to their own advantage (Huczyniski et al, 1996). This was possible as management remained ignorant of