SOCIOL 2V06 Study Guide - Personal Property, Stopwatch
9 Apr 2013
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In the late 1800"s work was very non-efficient and non-economical for the companies: work was cluttered, unpredictable, inefficient. Factories realized that exerting less control over workers and instead using technology would increase productivity. Engineers realized the precision of a machine could replace human workers. Every action was set to follow the minute of a stopwatch. All the planning and conceptual work would be removed: managers would do the thinking, workers would carry out their orders, this was called scientific management. Gilbert filmed people carrying out tasks and studied the films to find out how to remove all wasteful motions. Scientific management confined workers to repetitive tasks. Scientific management is a theory of bureaucratization. Each office should be controlled and supervised by a higher ranking office. However, lower offices should maintain a right to appeal decisions made higher in the hierarchy.
