... use of precise scientific testing which involved the breaking down of each activity in to their smallest components, and systematically analysing each step (Noon & Blyton, 2002). Once the best way of performing the job was allocated, it was the management's duty to fit the right person to each job. The employee should have the required skills-acquired by systematic training- to complete the job, and no more then those required by the job. As part of a general plan for increasing the planning functions of management, Taylor advocated fundamental principles intended to help managers to attain this great control and predictability, such as using scientific methods to determine the one best way of doing a particular task, rather then rely on older 'rule of thumb' methods, and give financial incentives to make sure that all work is completed in accordance with the set method. All the responsibility for planning and ...

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