FORDISM AND TAYLORISM

Comparison of Fordism and Taylorism

Comparison of Fordism and Taylorism

Introduction

Fordism and Taylorism have played an important role in the management processes throughout the world. In this paper the article “My Life and Work by Henry Ford” and “Scientific management by Frederick Taylor have been analysed.

Thesis Statement

Florist model is increasingly being replaced by Taylorist methods and the labor process is debated among scholars frequently.

Comparison of the articles

The term "Fordism" refers to mass production so that the practice led to Henry Ford, maker of American cars. This system is a combination of assembly lines, specialized machinery, high wages and a large number of workers employed. This mode of production is profitable as long as the product can be sold at a low price. (Ford, 2003)

Despite good dividends continue winning the Ford-T, from bringing to market the famous tractor and Ford are buying subsidiaries, as the Lincoln Motor Company, the fact is that, from the twenties, the Ford Motor Co. ceased to be the leading company in the U.S. auto sector for two reasons: the fierce competition from other companies found on the industry giant, General Motors, owned by tycoon JP Morgan (with the famous Chevy) and the Chrysler, and their reflexes slow in adopting the practice, common at other companies, to launch a new model almost every year.

Finally, in December 1927, Henry Ford debuts new company car, the Ford Model-A, vehicle much more evolved and luxury, with whom he also had great success, but far from that obtained with the Ford-T. Two years later he returned to get another car, the Ford V-8 amazing. Both cars are allowed to recover some lost ground with its big competitors, but without getting the lead in the U.S. market sales. However, it is made strong in Europe, where, following collaboration with the Rockefeller oil cartel (a shareholder of the Ford Motor Company) and his close friend Harvey S. Firestone, Henry Henry Ford was able to grab more than half of the industry.

Fordism and term Scientific Management are basically used to explain management functions with enormously remarkable effects. Fordism has taken its name from the Henry Ford's production units, and is recognized by a concerned mechanical division of labor within organizations along with their production units. Further distinctiveness of Fordism also includes some very strong hierarchical management, with staff in a production line often limited to a single chore, typically specialized and untrained.

Fredrick Winslow in the year 1911, originated the term scientific management,, and in very rudimentary periods recounted the one best way work could be finished and that the best way to advance yield was to move forward with the methods or procedures utilized by the workers.

Many assessments are made by the experts after the analysis of the two theories, for example the automation, disintegration and specialty of work and need of thoughtful or skilled substance will pace up the work. Fordism fused and focused the scientific procedures to get things finished by Ford's thriving mass-production ...