HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. For HR professionals, using data for people analytics can help them drive better business results and improve workforce management. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. They had a massive turnover problem.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Identity is increasingly being defined at the company level, and as a manifestation of the corporate culture that is rising in importance. The culture is more an expression of the values of the composite body of the workforce than the identity of the leader of the company--although these are certainly best aligned.

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Fayol Press Release Scientific Management Drucker 191

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As we automate more and more routine work, generating ever greater volumes of digital data, managers are focusing ever more on supporting knowledge workers — which these days is just about everybody. But most companies find it a cultural challenge to adopt these tools. 20% at Nationwide).

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Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. Perceiving a need for a more cerebral breed of managers to preside over corporations of unprecedented scale and scope, both looked for models to the research-driven natural science fields.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. In other words, higher career security is a function of employability, and that in turn depends on learnability. Nurture it.

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