Taylorism And Scientific Management Quotes & Sayings

There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management. — Paul Gibbons

One way was Taylorism. Frederick W. Taylor had been a steel company foreman who closely analyzed every job in the mill, and worked out a system of finely detailed division of labor, increased mechanization, and piecework wage systems, to increase production and profits. In 1911, he published a book on "scientific management" that became powerfully influential in the business world. Now management could control every detail of the worker's energy and time in the factory. As Harry Braverman said (Labor and Monopoly Capital), the purpose of Taylorism was to make workers interchangeable, able to do the simple tasks that the new division of labor required - like standard parts divested of individuality and humanity, bought and sold as commodities. — Howard Zinn

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. — William Shakespeare

I've set a clear doctrine: America makes no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbor them. If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists, and you're an enemy of the United States of America. — George W. Bush

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. — George Bernard Shaw

My roommate's not suicidal
But it sounds sexier than saying
that she closes her eyes sometimes
when she's changing lanes. — Chad Anderson

For if you truly believe that kindness is never wasted, you have to hold tightly to that belief even when the kindness is thrown back in your face — Sylvain Reynard