May 1, 2018 / C H Thompson

Taylorism

Taylorism – is the scientific management of workplace tasks
his 1911 book ‘Principles Of Scientific Management’ laid down the principles of large scale production lines
Scientific management – was the idea every workforce needed to be tightly controlled in order to enhance worker performance to improve production (like the way a machine is engineered into small repetitive tasks) eliminating the need to skills
‘time and motion’ studies broke every workplace task down into the smallest of details
Taylor’s scientific management principles were used by Henry Ford in car production lines a process which became known as Fordism

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