Fayol vs Taylor

The correct answer is C. Functional foremanship is a technique of Taylor’s scientific management. The scalar chain is associated with Fayol, while the differential piece-rate system is associated with Taylor, not Fayol.

The correct answer is A. Henri Fayol is associated with administrative theory and drew on his experience in senior management at a mining company. The clues point to his focus on managing the organisation as a whole, rather than Taylor’s focus on shop-floor work methods.

The clues point to F. W. Taylor, an engineer whose work on scientific management drew on experiments and observations of work in factories. Fayol is chiefly associated with administrative management.

The claim is incorrect because Fayol developed an administrative approach concerned with management more broadly, not just machines. Taylor, by contrast, is strongly associated with improving work methods and efficiency in factory operations.

Fayol’s principles are presented as broadly applicable principles of management and are associated with the administrative level. Taylor’s scientific management focused more on improving tasks and efficiency in production work.

Fayol’s management principles provide guidance for managers and are flexible rather than rigid rules. Time study is associated with Taylor, while scalar chain and equity are Fayol’s principles.

Scientific selection and training, together with standardising how a task is performed, fit Taylor’s scientific management, which aimed to improve work efficiency. The other choices name principles associated with Fayol.

Fayol is associated with administrative management, while Taylor’s scientific management focused on improving methods and efficiency in production work. The other options misattribute their contributions or areas of focus.

Option D reverses the attribution: functional foremanship is associated with Taylor, while equity is one of Fayol’s principles. The pairings in the other options correctly match their respective contributions.

Initiative and esprit de corps, or team spirit, are two of Fayol’s principles of management. These clues therefore point to Fayol.

The differential piece-rate system is associated with Taylor, and fatigue study is taught among the work-study techniques of scientific management. Although the Gilbreths are especially associated with motion and fatigue studies, the differential piece-rate clue points most strongly to Taylor.

Fayol’s management principles are intended to be broadly applicable across different kinds of organisations, not just factories. Their use in a school, hospital, and factory illustrates that broad applicability.

The standardisation of tools and equipment is a technique of Taylor’s scientific management. Setting a standard shovel size helps ensure that workers use suitable, consistent tools for the task.

Unity of direction means that activities with the same objective should be guided by one plan and one head. Coordinating departments towards a shared objective illustrates this principle.

Time study measures how long a task takes, often using a stopwatch, to establish a standard time. This is a technique of Taylor’s scientific management.

Fayol’s work addressed administration and management more broadly, while Taylor’s scientific management focused more directly on work methods and efficiency at the shop-floor level. These describe their main emphases, not an absolute separation.

The titles are reversed. Taylor is commonly known as the father of scientific management, while Fayol is commonly associated with modern management theory.

Taylor’s scientific management focused on analysing and improving work methods to raise efficiency, especially at the shop-floor level. This makes Taylor the best answer.

Fayol examined management as a broad administrative process and described key managerial functions and principles. That makes him the best answer here.

Fayol is known for general principles of management, whereas Taylor is associated with scientific-management techniques such as time study and standardisation. Option A expresses this distinction accurately.

Discipline is one of Fayol’s principles of management. Setting a standard time for a task is the purpose of Taylor’s time study, so the case combines one idea from each thinker.

Fayol’s scalar chain concerns the formal line of authority in an organisation. Motion study analyses workers’ movements to remove unnecessary motions and is specifically associated with Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, within the broader scientific-management tradition.

Gang plank is linked with Fayol’s scalar chain and time study is Taylor’s technique. Exam tip: identify mixed clues separately.

Authority line is an administrative principle and speed measurement is scientific work study. Exam tip: choose thinker from level and activity.

Many specialists are linked with Taylor’s functional foremanship and may conflict with unity of command. Exam tip: identify the multiple orders clue.