Question

Jason is the new manager of a local retail store. He is in charge of all the activities that take place at the store. During the first two weeks after joining, Jason carefully monitors each employee's tasks and the time spent on performing each of those tasks. He then organizes the tasks and activities into work groups, standardizes the procedures involved, and allocates a time limit for each work group and procedure. Jason informs his employees that their wage incentives will directly reflect their adherence to the new standards. In this case, Jason's actions are consistent with the ideologies of _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

scientific management

Explanation:

Scientific management is a method that aims to increase economic efficiency of workflows particularly labour productivity.

It breaks job to be done into parts and makes sure each one is executed as systematically as possible thereby increasing standardisation and producing better results.

In this scenario Jason carefully monitors each employee's tasks and the time spent on performing each of those tasks. He then organizes the tasks and activities into work groups, standardizes the procedures involved, and allocates a time limit for each work group and procedure.

This is employing scientific management to improve on performance of labour