POL 507 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-5: Business Process Reengineering, Scientific Management, Tom Peters
7 Mar 2015
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Taylorism is presented, if at all, as a chapter of ancient history, a weird episode about an odd man with a stopwatch. Over the past century taylor"s successors have developed a powerful battery of statistical methods and analytical approaches to business problems. And yet the world of management remains deeply. Experiment - he watched as labourers loaded ninety-two- pound bars onto rail cars. There were 80,000 tons" worth of iron bars, which were to be carted off as fast as possible. He estimated that the men were currently loading iron at the rate of twelve and a half tons per man per day. He carried out an experiment and figured that they loaded sixteen and a half tons in something under fourteen minutes. Taylor did the math: over a ten-hour day, it worked out to seventy-five tons per day per man.
