ADMS 2610 Lecture 8: ADMS 1010 week 8
27 Sep 2015
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Shortly after wwii the corporations were trying to figure out how to ramp up the economy, lebeau articulated the solution that has become the norm for the whole system: he stated that: our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption we nee things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever accelerated rate , the us government said that their main goal was to produce more consumer goods (not health care, better transportation etc) this was due to. Scientific management (taylorism: developed by fredrick taylor in 1900, applied scientific methods to improve management, time motion studies, major aim was to increase efficiency (cid:224)efficient is based on the ratio of inputs to outputs (maximum output within minimum input)
