ADM 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7: North American Free Trade Agreement, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Corporate Social Responsibility

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: David Delcorde

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Management = getting things done through other people. Management thought started over 100 years ago and has evolved very quickly. Film: clockwork: scientific management (1890-1945): systematic study of the relationships between people and tasks to redesign the work for higher efficiency, frederick taylor. Reduce the time a worker spent on each task by optimizing the way the task was done. 1911, taylor"s work (the principles of scientific management) described how applying the scientific method could be applied to improve productivity by: Simplify jobs to allow training in specialized sequence of motions in best way. Replace prevailing rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the way the job is performed now & determine new ways to do it, codifying the new method into rules. Scientifically select workers whose skills match the rules in step 1, train and develop each worker and cooperate with the workers to ensure the developed methods are being followed.