Explain why Taylorism is an inappropriate theory of motivation for engineers within amodern workplace setting

In my opinion, this is because the work that engineers do
is not compatible with Taylorism.  Taylorism is best used as a way of monitoring and
motivating relatively unskilled workers who are doing a job that requires little thought
or creativity.  I do not think that engineers fit these
criteria.

Taylorism, to me, means the use of things like
time and motion studies.  It is a way of breaking down the parts of a task to be sure
that the worker is performing each task as efficiently as possible.  It can be used to
motivate workers because the time and motion study can tell a manager how long the task
should be taking.  The manager can then basically tell the
worker "you're not going fast enough -- speed up or be
fired."

I do not think that you can motivate skilled
workers in this way, especially if they are doing a task that needs thought.  You cannot
tell them "think faster."  You cannot really break down the task either -- you can't
really say "you have 1 hour to think about this part of the
design..."

Because engineers are doing skilled work that
requires thought, Taylorism is not useful in motivating them, in my
opinion.