Geography 3422A/B Study Guide - Whipcracking, W. M. Keck Observatory, Vale Limited
24 Mar 2013
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Bosses are reining in staff because they can and. Bosses are reining in staff because they can. The lesson to draw from ms. mayer s whip-cracking, in silicon. That has undermined employees bargaining power, enabling managers to impose greater demands on their shrinking workforces. Has worked well in the past few decades, but a combination of new technology and a shift in the balance of managerial power is bringing back taylorism. Technology is enabling the kind of surveillance of which. Taylor could only have dreamt: theory x the opposite approach assumes that workers need to be tightly managed and supervised because they are inherently slackers. Goes back to the scientific management notions of. Frederick taylor, a mechanical engineer (1911) who advocated breaking down the work of unskilled and assembly line workers into small tasks and then telling them exactly what to do while watching them closely. Mr. baillie (from south africa), now chief human resources officer at.
