Blog on Management and Organization

Question: Discuss about the Blog on Management and Organization. Answer: Introduction: Henry Ford started his company The Ford Motor Company to manufacture cars very cheaply in partnership with Alexander Malcomson. His ideas were put to effect with the help of Fredrick Taylor who helped in the mass production in a cost-effective manner. The management principles taken up by Taylor were that he assigned people the tasks according to their capabilities. The careful arrangement of the parts that were produced and the final arrangement of the car played an important part for the growth of the company. Taylor made it a point that the smaller parts of the car could be moved from one place to another while the main body or the larger parts need to be stationary at one place (Witzel and Warner 2015). This enhanced the productivity level, as more cars were being able to be manufactured at a lesser time. The introduction of assembly line also helped the company to achieve the desired target, where people were stationed at one particular place to perform the desired task and the car would be pulled from one station to the next with the help of a rope. This helped in the mass production of the cars. Time constraints were also reduced as each car would require one and a half hour to get assembled. Employees were also well paid a t $5 a day, which ensured their honest efforts towards the company. To maintain discipline in the factory, trade unions were not entertained as they would hinder production, which did not give any job security to the employees (Vidal 2015). The idea of breaking down long tasks into short forms and assigning them to individuals was the key to success in the information technology company with which I was associated in the recent past, Accenture. The work culture had no progress, as there was a dearth of responsibilities in the organization. This resulted in the minimum output that the organization was facing. The time saving principle had to be in practice, which would have helped the organization to achieve its target and give benefits to the employees. The company gave 100% job security to its employees because they knew that to achieve high productivity levels, the employees should be taken care of nicely. In the modern era, workers of Europe, Australia or America would not adopt the principles of Taylor in its traditional form. The changes in the technology and the automation process have certainly established a new theory globally. Principles of Taylor need to be changed according to the changing environment to suit appropriately in the work culture. The call centres can adopt some of the principles. The work culture in a call centre is divided into different sectors according to the capabilities of the employees who specialize in those fields. The employees are ascertained the task according to the roles they play in the organization (Sinha and Gabriel 2016). These rules can be applied in some industries globally. For a start-up company, division of labor, incentives to employees are some of the positive impacts. Since these principles were developed almost a century age, their effects are long lasting and can be changed accordingly to suit the work culture in the organization (Janoski and Lepadatu 2014). Linear Programming Linear programming helps in finding out various inequalities relating to a situation and finding the next best alternative that can be applied under that given condition. An example of this can be labor management where the production levels can be maximized to achieve more profits by determining the best conditions using linear programming. It can be used as a checking tool to find out the preciseness of the decision that was taken by the managerial body (Fernandes-Blanco, Arroyo and Alguacil 2014). To ensure that the cattle has a good amount of food which needs to have some specific amount of protein and fat. The rancher needs to consider two brands to get the best results but at the same time reducing cost. Through the application of linear programming, the rancher can find out the best cost options and prefer which brand to take or to mix both brands at certain quantities to achieve the desired output. After the summation, has been done, it is seen that on mixing 2.4 units of Bra nd X and 1.2 units of Brand Y, the optimum value regarding cost can be achieved. The idea of comparing both products in order to maximize the profit has to be done for the company to benefit in the near future. The organization maintained a good labor management team for better output before I left Accenture. The CEO when interviewed had stated that the decision of the managerial body was to always maximize the profit while maintaining minimum cost. The advantages of using linear programming in an organization is that the problem can be solved in a scientific manner keeping in mind all the possible alternatives that are available which in turn helps in re-evaluation of the resources available which even affects the decision-making body. There is a lot of flexibility in gathering information about the problem and seeing that the factors which helps in production process is used in the optimum way. The decision-making body of an organization needs to keep these in mind for the smooth running of the organization (Angelelli et al. 2016). The limitations of linear programming are that to understand the objective in a mathematical form is an uphill task. If the objective function is determined then the forms of constraints such as social, financial constraints are difficult to identify. There is also a possibility that the function and the constraints may not be linear to each other. In order to find out the related values of the co-efficient, the determinants of the constraints that needs to be taken into account is a major issue (Kuhn 2014). The organization needs to make sure that the constraints are visible and needs to take those into account. The production output can only be maximized by taking a few inputs in the linear programming (Paris 2015). The production output can be increased by varying the factors of production. The alternatives need to be productive enough in order to change the current method under the linear programming method. The startup companies are very much required to follow linear programming as it will help them to choose the best factors of production in the market at the best possible price. Reference List Witzel, M. and Warner, M., 2015. Taylorism revisited: Culture, management theory and paradigm-shift.Cambridge Judge Business SchoolWorking paper number 01/2015. Vidal, M., 2015. 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