FREDERICK TAYLOR PRODUCTIVITY IN HEALTHCARE

Frederick Taylor Productivity in Healthcare

Abstract

Frederick W. Taylor is regarded as the leader in production sciences. His approaches were different in technique, emphasis and application but its objective was the same i.e. continuous improvement of a merchandise or service. Frederick W. Taylor is the first one to try to use new approaches to evolve the work of untrained employees in industrial associations. Due to his general approach of enquiry and submission of some fundamental concepts to personal work, he was granted the name of “father of scientific management. Applying Frederick W. Taylor's to the healthcare management can be equally beneficial as the concept of his production theories can improve healthcare services in their quality.

Frederick Taylor Productivity in Healthcare

Introduction

Applying Frederick Taylor's production theory to the healthcare can yield a number of benefits. For example linking pay increases overtly to future performance and the company's requirements for work of a given complexity (i.e., Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, Respiratory Therapist, Administrative Associate or Technical Associate) removes the confusion from the merit pay system. It puts accountability where it should have been in the first place, with the employee. In accordance with this changed philosophy, an increasing number of organizations have taken the step of truly linking pay for performance, through such programs as variable pay, where a percentage of pay is at risk, depending on the employee's achievement of predetermined measurable goals. Taylor's values sound deceptively simple. The first step in making the manual employee more productive is to gaze at the task and to investigate its constituent motions. (Goodrick, 2006).

Background

The next step is to record each motion, the physical effort it takes, and the time it takes. Then shifts that are not needed can be eliminated; and when we have looked at manual work, we have found that a great numerous of the traditionally most-hallowed methods turn out to be waste and do not add anything. Then, each of the motions that remain as essential to getting the completed merchandise is set up so as to be done the simplest way, the easiest way, the way that places the smallest physical and mental damage on the operator, and the way that needs the least time. Next, these shifts are put together afresh into a "job" that is in an ordered sequence. Finally, the tools required to do the motions are redesigned. A correctly organized incentive-driven scheme (IDS) presents some methods and grades of compensation. All IDS schemes must be tailored to each organization. (Sullivan Ravens 2003 Pp. 40)

Analysis

Wheat covering works in a clinic may not work in academia. It is generally a mistake to apply an inducement plan without input from employees. Management should use a program design team composed of employees and supervisors, due this through implementation of the following procedures: *Service Delivery: Establishment of health information and logistics systems and the provision of medical material and equipment. Training: Development of training systems and training programs in health schools and in the workplace in order to ...