1. By From The Print, september 12, 2015, http://www.economist.com/news/business/21664190-modern-version-scientific-management-threatens-dehumanise-workplace-digital?zid=304&ah=e5690753dc78ce91909083042ad12e30
  2. Controversy
    1. Scientist management backlash
      1. Rival school managers : workers = human beings
    2. New York times's article about Amazon
      1. Taylorism = thriving
      2. Amazon uses Taylor's techniques
        1. Amazon's boss ( Jeff Bezos) denies it
    3. Gobbetising knowledge jobs limits
    4. Pushing people tot their limits
      1. Encouraging back-stabbing
      2. Microsoft, General Ecletric and Acclenture finds it counter-productive
    5. Unpopular like original Taylorism
  3. Technology
    1. Division of labor to be applied to a much wider range of jobs
    2. Time-and-motion studies to new levels
    3. Companies users
      1. Upwork
      2. Workday and Salesforce
      3. Turner Construction
      4. Motorola
  4. Process
    1. Three rules of Taylorism + digital technology
      1. Applies a wider range of employees (services workers and managers
      2. Managers = mere widgets in giant corporate computer
    2. Dependance on brainpower of the employees
      1. Reward the best with high salaries
  5. Frederick Taylor
    1. Most influential management guru of the 20th century
      1. Book "Principles of Scientific Mangamement = first management blockbuster
    2. Fans
      1. Henry Ford
      2. Vladimir Lenin
    3. Philosophy
      1. Management = Science
      2. Workers = cogs in industrial machine
      3. Managers = lords of creation in companies
    4. Three rules
      1. 1. Break compex jobs in simple ones
      2. 2. Measure everything that workers do
      3. 3. Link pay to performance