NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Technoscience, Scientific Management
19 Nov 2012
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Wrote a book which he believed included new theories and suggestions . He believed that just like scientific laws governed the natural world around us, he was convinced his theories were scientific. He blamed management for lacking the technical knowledge they needed. The foremen were individuals who needed supervision during at the time and the position was greatly abused their position by taking bribes from their workers to prevent them from getting fired. Blamed that the workers weren"t working as hard as they could and claimed this had lead to a common problem called soldiering. Manufacturing and production levels were not high as they should be and the blame could be laid. Work should be governed by scientific laws. Scientific way of doing work was based on the idea of what we call time and. Pay workers through a peace rate system. According to braverman, taylor introduces his work during this time exclusively to control the labor force.
