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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

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.

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Key HR Trends for 2022 and Beyond

HR Digest

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. Workers need to adopt power skills in order to gain a sense of control over their career direction. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022. New HR Trends (2022).

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

This need to publish to make a career has led to increasingly obscure research of almost no value to real businesses, specialization that encourages silo thinking, and a serious disregard of the importance of teaching students to think. STEM-driven.