Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering. It is Machine Effort and Human Effort Industrial Engineering. 2.67+ Million Page View Blog. 200,000+ visitors. (36,500+ page views and 21,000+ visitors in 2024.)
Blog Provides Industrial Engineering Knowledge: Articles, Books, Case Studies, Course Pages and Materials, Lecture Notes, Project Reviews, Research Papers Study Materials, and Video Lectures.
Blog provides full IE Online Course Notes
Cooperation - Importance in Industrial Engineering
Principles of Scientific Management - Taylor
The managers following scientific management thought do the following things.
Third. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to insure all of the work being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been developed.
Fourth. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen. The management take over all work for which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the men.
Cooperation and mutual increase in incomes are the principles on which the factory system is established. Why should an artisan working on his own and earning a good income join a factory under a different owner as wage employee? The artisan joins a factory as there is promise of higher wages compared to the income he is earning as an independent artisan. From where does this extra income come from? It comes from the productivity increase of the factory system. The increase in productivity comes from process changes brought about by the owner of the factory. As the factories become big managers enter the picture. Industrial engineering is a management discipline with foundation in engineering with focus on efficiency or productivity improvement.
Industrial engineers also have to work on the basis of cooperation principles. They have to cooperate with operators, foremen, engineers and managers to do the job of increasing productivity and other performance dimensions through engineering and management improvements.
Industrial Engineering Principle 17. Hearty cooperation Principle of Industrial Engineering.
Industrial engineers and managers must have cooperative attitudes. They are in the production system to facilitate work.
An industrial engineer does not exploit anybody in the organization.
How to develop hearty cooperation?
F.W. Taylor included hearty cooperation as a principles in Scientific management. But how to achieve hearty cooperation was not described by him. As an engineer by education and profession, he is not the right person to discuss how to achieve it. In his writing he might have mention some acts he has done to increase cooperation. Henri Fayol in his essay on "General and Industrial Administration" also included cooperation as a principle. Chester Barnard discussed cooperation in much more detail. At the present moment, Organizational Behavior is the subject that is discussing cooperation in more detail as the subject is concerned with managers and employees in organizations.
Industrial engineers have to master the subject of Organizational Behavior, implement it in the practice and must engage continuous discussion regarding the utility and limitation of the concepts, relations, and implications developed so far in the discipline.
The full paper on the principles by Prof. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao is now available for downloading from IISE 2017 Annual Conference Proceedings in Proquest Journal Base.
No comments:
Post a Comment