HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. Organizations sit on a goldmine of data. For HR professionals, using data for people analytics can help them drive better business results and improve workforce management. Remote Work.

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. Leaders manage from within as integrated members of the corporate community not lofty, distinct and distant figureheads.

Fayol 191

Fayol Press Release Scientific Management Drucker 191

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. Nationwide has been successful because it has managed its adoption of collaboration tools as part of a broader cultural change program.

Tools 15

Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 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.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Open-book Scientific Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

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. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

Education 16

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

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-rich natural science fields. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

Education 9

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 9