Scientific Management

Abstract

Scientific management advocates a rational, objective approach to the management of labor. The approach identifies managers as those responsible for studying, designing, and assessing the work of employees. Organizational communication scholars have engaged with this tradition of management through a focus on its problems, such as its narrow conception of communication and its separation of knowing from doing, and employee resistance of such practices. Communication scholars have also questioned the overemphasis on rationality and efficiency present in the practice of scientific management.

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