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It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Harvard Business Review

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. Even simpler habits, such as writing a blog, sharing articles on social media, or recommending books and movies, can be rewarded.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech. The movement challenged the influence of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific management, which had reduced workers to unwieldy cogs in efficiency-seeking industrial machines.

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