Important components of scientific management include analysis, synthesis, logic, rationality, empiricism, work ethic, efficiency, elimination of waste, and standardized best practices. All of these components focus on the efficiency of the worker and not on any specific behavioral qualities or variations among workers.
Today, an example of scientific management would be determining the amount of time it takes workers to complete a specific task and determining ways to decrease this amount of time by eliminating any potential waste in the workers' process. A significant part of Taylorism was time studies. Taylor was concerned with reducing process time and worked with factory managers on scientific time studies. At its most basic level, time studies involve breaking down each job into component parts, timing each element, and rearranging the parts into the most efficient method of working. By counting and calculating, Taylor sought to transform management into a set of calculated and written techniques.
Source: Boundless. “Scientific Management: Taylor and the Gilbreths.” Boundless Management. Boundless, 21 Jul. 2015. Retrieved 27 Jan. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/management/textbooks/boundless-management-textbook/organizational-theory-3/classical-perspectives-29/scientific-management-taylor-and-the-gilbreths-165-4019/