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... Frederick Taylor wrote The Principles of Scientific Management in 1911, these principles became known as Taylorism. ... A core attraction of Taylorism is that it promises that the best possible method, "the one best way" will be used. ... The second core attraction of Taylorism is: it promises to be a means against what Taylor called "systematic soldiering". ... (Springer, 1999) Beside the core attractions of Taylorism there are more contingent ones. ... Moreover, Taylorism itself creates the conditions for its propagation. ... Neo-Taylorism is also apparent in Business Process Reengineering. ... ” It involves a wide range of possible solutions, which includes Tayloristic ones such as the use of knowledge based information systems to replace "highly trained" specialists with (teams of) “generalists” (Hammer and Champy 1994: 38) Reaction to "Taylorism": Taylors methods and his views of the worker met with resistance from labour. ... Taylorism changed the relations between management and labour by changing the position of labour in the firm. ... One of the drawbacks is, that Taylorism is expensive because it entails creating jobs for non value adding supervisors and other indirect workers. ... Taylorism is not just a movement for efficiency by also a movement for providing jobs in the production process for the middle class (Merkle 1980). A related problem of Taylorism is loss of innovative capacity. Solutions for companies to satisfy their innovation needs within the framework of Taylorism are buying up small, innovative companies, or concentrating innovation in a separate department. ... Tackling this problem while remaining inside Taylorism means avoiding granting autonomy to the shop floor level. ... Taylorism leads to inherently unattractive work on the shop floor. ... One stumbling block that is manifest from the beginning of Taylorism is that it clashes with democratic values, especially with autonomy. ... In managerial discourse, the clash between Taylorism and autonomy gives rise to a language game in which the meaning of autonomy is emptied out. ... “Taylorism has been a significant part of organizations from the early part of the century and has been polished by major corporations for the last seventy-five years “ (Franklin Becker and Fritz Steele, 1995). |
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