INST 335 Lecture 13: INST335 Lecture 13: Early Limitations
6 Feb 2019
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Fayol, taylor, and the gilbreths all addressed productivity improvement and how to run an organization smoothly. But those views generally presumed that managers were overseeing manual labor tasks. As work began to require less manual labor and more knowledge work, some of the principles they had developed became less effective. At the same time, some argued that the principles of taylorism tended to dehumanize workers. Sinclair, one of taylor"s vocal critics, raised awareness of deplorable working conditions in the meatpacking industry in his 1906 book, the jungle. Sinclair pointed out the relatively small increase in pay (61%) that workers received compared with their increased productivity (362%). Frederick taylor answered sinclair"s criticism, saying that workers should not get the full benefit because it was management that devised and taught the workers to produce more. But taylor"s own words compared workers to beasts of burden.
