Answer to Question #121321 in Management for ahmad

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Can scientific management principles help you be more efficient? Choose a task that you do regularly (such as laundry, fixing dinner, grocery shopping, studying for exams, etc.). Analyze it by writing down the steps involved in completing that task. See if there are activities that could be combined or eliminated

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Scientific management principles in grocery shopping

Scientific Management Principles may help a person to be extra well-organized. It comprises of a list of the levels to achieve a definite job. The repeated phases can be removed or the stages can be joined as one. Therefore, we are able to finish the required tasks in the least possible time and thus become more efficient.

For example, steps involved in grocery shopping:

•Prepare a list of the items to be purchased after verifying the stock at home

•Find out the best retail store in the neighborhood where the quality of the products available is good and the price is reasonable.

•Select a particular date

•Go out and do the purchasing.

On comparing the way grocery shopping  by an individual, they got to know that most people do not prepare any list for grocery to be purchased before going for shopping, whereas I do. Thus the person ends up purchasing irrelevant items and left out the important ones. As a result, one needs to go for shopping quite frequently which results in wastage of time and money. On the other hand, preparing a shopping list helps in being focused and  avoiding unnecessary shopping. This saves time and money. Thus, it makes a person to be more efficient and effective in shopping grocery items.

Works Cited

Kakar, S. Frederick Taylor: a study in personality and innovation. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1970

Kanigel, R. The one best way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the enigma of efficiency. London: Little Brown and Company, 1997