Capstone module 4
HST 318
Part 1. Explain why Frederick Winslow Taylor believed scientific management would reduce the
tension between workers and owners. Include two quotations from the assigned readings to support
your argument.
I believe personal growth and development is the most valuable thing in any industry, especially true for
engineers that we see throughout this course that experience and proper training are the currency of
the world. “ They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman, whereas in the
past he chose his own work and trained himself as best he could”(The Principle of Scientific
Management, 2)
The second appeal of Taylors approach would be sharing the load. “There is an almost equal division of
the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen” (The Principle of Scientific
Management, 4). This concept sounds wonderful in theory, but in person experience this tends to be on
the contrary. The hardest part of any job (this goes all the way back to module 1) is people. You cannot
