The features of scientific management are as follows. A. All work is…

The correct answer is Option (2) → B, C, D only

A. All work is broken down into its smallest repetitive elements and divided between managers Incorrect. Under Taylor’s system all work was broken down into its smallest repetitive elements and divided between workers, not managers. Managers controlled the work; the workers did the small repeated tasks.

B. Worker are timed using a stop watch Correct. Workers were timed with the help of stopwatches, so that every small task had a fixed time.

C. Meeting targets is a necessity Correct. The workers had to fulfil a certain target every day.

D. Conveyor belts helped to assemble only one part of the final product Correct. Production was further speeded up by the assembly line: each worker sat along a conveyor belt and assembled only one part of the final product, and the speed of work was set by the speed of the belt.

E. Just in time delivery added efficiency to the process Incorrect. ‘Just-in-time’ is a much later way of keeping costs low: suppliers send parts only as they are needed, as when parts suppliers located around a car factory send the parts every two hours. It concerns the supply of parts, not Taylor’s organisation of work.

Note: The paragraph on Frederick Winslow Taylor’s ‘Scientific Management’, in the chapter ‘Change and Development in Industrial Society’, was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023. It has been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter is still there; the book still speaks of Taylorist labour processes, and its glossary explains Taylorism.