Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Change and Development in industrial Society

Question:

An American named Fredrick Winslow Taylor invented a new system in the 1890's in which all work was broken down in smallest repetitive elements and divided between workers. He called it:

Options:

Just in time

Industrial Engineering

Mechanisation of work

Outsourcing

Correct Answer:

Industrial Engineering

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Industrial Engineering

An American called Frederick Winslow Taylor invented a new system in the 1890s, which he called ‘Scientific Management’. It is also known as Taylorism or industrial engineering. Under his system, all work was broken down into its smallest repetitive elements, and divided between workers. Workers were timed with the help of stopwatches and had to fulfil a certain target every day. Production was further speeded up by the introduction of the assembly line. Each worker sat along a conveyor belt and assembled only one part of the final product. The speed of work could be set by adjusting the speed of the conveyor belt. In the 1980s, there was an attempt to shift from this system of direct control to indirect control, where workers are supposed to motivate and monitor themselves. But often we find that the old Taylorist processes survive.