Based on following case study, answer question.

 "Oxlo enterprises" is a renowned name in textile manufacturing Industry. Over the past 2 years the company has scaled to new heights. The management has been grateful to the loyal team of managers and staff. Mr. Sharma, who is the operations head has been very clear about giving work to team mates based on their specialisation and skills. He has also given positional rights to people and often talks to subordinates to perform work and submit it on time. Talking about production department, where Ms. Neeta is departmental head. In her team, work is well distributed till the lower most levels. She makes sure that no gender bias is there and all people are treated equally.

"Oxlo enterprises" follows a system of official communication where each subordinate contacts his/her immediate superior only. One of the best working patterns that exists in the organisation is that everyone and everything can be found at the right place. The whole company works on the ideology of "United we stand" and the culture can be translated by their usage of "We" as a common phrase. As the size of company has tremendously expanded, now the management has hired two new Departmental heads to focus on productivity. One of them has been made "Planning Incharge" and the other one as "Production Incharge". Mr. Padam, who is the Production Incharge, has suggested, an innovative way to improve production of units by workers. He said those workers who produce more units than standard would be paid more money per unit produced.

Mr. Padam also suggested to use standards for performance of both men and machines, so that raw material, time, product, machinery methods on working conditions can perform as per benchmarks.

One of them has been made "Planning Incharge" and the other one as "Production Incharge".

Identify an important technique suggested by F.W. Taylor, stated in the above line.

Functional foremanship

The correct answer is option (2)- Functional foremanship.

An important technique suggested by F.W. Taylor, stated in the line "One of them has been made 'Planning Incharge' and the other one as 'Production Incharge'," is "Functional Foremanship."

* Functional Formanship - Taylor advocated separation of planning and execution functions. This concept was extended to the lowest level of the shop floor. It was known as functional foremanship. Under the factory manager there was a planning incharge and a production incharge. Under planning incharge four personnel namely instruction card clerk, route clerk, time and cost clerk and a disciplinarian worked. These four personnel would draft instructions for the workers, specify the route of production, prepare time and cost sheet and ensure discipline respectively.