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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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. We suggest starting with three things: Select for it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech. In the 1930s, Elton Mayo ignited the Human Relations movement by documenting the productivity boost that came with treating assembly line workers with dignity and care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values. For more information, see the conference homepage. Many corporations already say they cannot find the type of employees they need, so we must begin acting now to transform our business schools.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Consider the slide deck.

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