Re-Tayloring management [electronic resource] : scientific management a century on / edited by Christina Evans and Leonard Holmes.

9781409450764 (electronic bk.)
9781409450757

Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Gower, c2013.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 205 p.) : ill.

T55.9.T377 R48 2013eb

658.5

Over a century has passed and yet there is growing evidence that knowledge workers across the globe today are as constrained by F.W. Taylor's much maligned The Principles of Scientific Management, as factory workers in the early twentieth century. Re-Tayloring Management looks critically at Taylor's philosophy, contrasting this with more contemporary perspectives that have emerged with the professionalization of management and the growth in business and management education. The evidence suggest the 'ghost of Taylor' is very much alive in high skill/low cost knowledge and service roles across....

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