Critical review of Scientific Management Adopted from helptostudy.com Scientific Management is a theory of management that analyzes work flows in order to improve economic performance, especially labor productivity. This theory of management, founded by Frederick Winslow Taylor, was popular in the U.S. manufacturing industry in the 1880s and 1890s. Scientific management eliminated the need for skilled labor by delegating each employee one simple task to repeat over and over. Although this method increased the productivity of factories, it stripped employees their freedom to choose their work, as well as how it should be done. (Ireh, 2016). Scientific management, although stressed people post match, more focus on jobs, rather than people, each post have standardized operation process and method, the workers have to do is training well according to the standard operation procedure to finish work, but i...