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Taylor (1911)

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Taylor (1911) The Principles of Scientific Management

Science comes before opinion, which results in the dehumanisation of management and work. Everything had to be measured, down to the tiniest detail, as from this one could measure the efficiency of an individual worker.

Taylorist management leaves no room for imagination or human thought in general. People are machines. It gave firms structure, freeing workers from the unstructured work of the foremen at the turn of the twentieth century, but disabled their ability to solve problems.

 

 Copyright Heledd Straker 2006

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