SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Piece Work

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2040
• Professor: Natalie Rose

Document Summary

He believed that managers could not set out a most efficient method of work completion for the workers, and simply paying the workers by piece would lead to them discovering the most efficient procedures. Taylor also believed that workers should be subjected to an incentive and punishment system, in which they would be rewarded for outperforming others and punished for under performing or violating rules of some sort. Foucault"s ideas contrast with taylor"s, in that he believes that the individual workers do not have power, but their positions are constructed by power, in a sense they are sitting in a web of power constructed by organizations. Therefore the control of the workers is in the hands of the organizations that employ them, rather than taylor"s idea that the worker knows best how to accomplish work.