NATS 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stelco, Piece Work, Job Design
24 Nov 2014
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Fredrick taylor first published his book principles of scientific. Management in 1911 book synthesizes work he began in 1860s. Taylor believed that scientific laws which govern natural world should be applied to workplace claimed that workers would be more productive if the same scientific axioms used for machines were applied to activities of labor. Wanted to design management system that would reorganize the conditions of work in factory aware of inefficiencies that hamper factory production worked as manager, foreman and engineer at midvelle stelco plant. Management should acquire more knowledge through time studies so that. Brain work removed from shop floor and placed within planning department information produced in planning department then presented to worker in written order foreman would then be replaced by series of man. Workers would be paid according to incentive wage system that rewarded them only if they men production standard that was determined scientifically.
