Taylor watched that workers are motivated by personal gains, so he calculated how much output they made a day, so if they made that target output they will win more money, Taylor watched workers as machines, because when they more produce, more productivity, then the labour costs would be low for each unit produced.
This ideas resulted for good for where Taylor worked and a lot of people used this method, but there were a lot of critics.
A employee can win more money, but if they unfulfill the work, there will be no increase of effectiveness and no productivity gains.
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Ideas to simplistic, employees not only can be motivated by many things, not only money.