GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Systems Theory, Electronic Body Music, Applied Mathematics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Sui Sui

Document Summary

Steam engine: can move products from one city to another. The factory system : huge factories being set up to mass produce. Taylor (1856-1915: one best way was his quote, for performing, doing something, etc, his idea was that there is one most eicient way for working on a projects. Soldiering: almost universally held belief among workers that if they became more producive, fewer of them would be needed and jobs would be eliminated. Taylor brought in the incenive wage system to encourage producivity. Workers wasted a lot of their efort by relying on rule-of-thumb methods rather than on opimal work methods that can be determined by a scieniic study of the task. Taylor created these 4 principals: replace rule of thumb work methods with methods based on a scieniic study of the task, scieniically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman.