In the history of management, one of the few truly revolutionary theories is the scientific movement developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor. It has experienced rapid growth in importance during the first two decades of the twentieth century in the US and had an immense impact on the organizational practices for the entire century. Taylor is the chief exponent of the original principles of the scientific movement. However, it was Henry Ford who greatly developed them later, who used them to build his system of mass production that still bears his name. The revolutionary approach that these two men brought towards...
to increase the efficiency of factory production process in the very first place. However, subjugation of workers turnt out or result to be one the means in achieving the end.

However, one thing to be certain of is Ford"s mass-production technology and Taylor"s management methods has merged over time across many industries to create the hectic, time-crunched work life so many people experienced today. Rather than treating scientific management and Fordism as an historical anachronism, as we make way through the new millennium, they are actually alive and well, and should be analyzed from various perspectives.