Taylor
Taylor (1911)
-Emergence & Marx
-Scientific Management
-3 Reasons why low productivity existed
-4 principles
-Workers resisted Taylor’s ideology
-> Willman 2014 quote
“Securing cooperation is the consummate and enduring problem for business”
Schumpeter
Schumpeter 2015
-Digital Taylorism
-3 basic principles supercharged
Pro-Taylor
-Bethlehem Steel
-Fordism (Productivity)
-Thompson Report (1917)
-Nelson’s study (1974)
-Lazear (2000) Safelite
(-Lincoln Electric)
Con-Taylor
-Hawthorne Experiments (Human Relations Movement)
-McGregor 2006
-Roberts 2010
-Fordism (Labour)
-Watertown Arsenal Strike 1911
-Hoxie Report 1915
-Modern Times 1936
-(Tournament Theory?)
McGregor
McGregor 2006
-Identified why Taylorism fails: Managers fundamentally misunderstand “control”
-We need selective adaption to nature
-4 Reasons why incentive plans fail
-Management is not a science
Waring
Waring 1991
-How SM became the political philosophy of bureaucratic government
-Even some of Taylor’s disciples acknowledged that scientific management was rather aggrevating the class conflict than alleviating it as promised
Hawthorne Experiments
Mayo
-4 Experiments
-Findings & Conclusions
-Hawthorne Effect
Lazear & Rosen
Lazear & Rosen 1981
-Tournament Theory
-Price awarded based on relative rank
-Career Structures -> ILM?
-Prize of promotion > short-term incentive pay
Vroom
Vroom 1964
-Expectancy Theory
-3 Components for motivation to occur
Latham & Locke
Latham & Locke 2019
-2 components of effective goals
-3 moderators
Doerr
Doerr 2018
-Measure what matter
-OKR
Roberts
Roberts 2010
-5 cases where weak incentives are ideal
-Relates to the 2008 financial crisis
“designing useful incentives inside organisations is often very complicated and designing ones that are both useful and strong is often impossible”
-McGregor 2006 proved empirically that incentives don’t work, Roberts 2010 provides economic theory explaining why
-Showed that Taylorism fails not just humanistically but on pure economic efficiency grounds
Case Studies
-Lincoln Electric (Synthesis of Taylor & HRM?)
-Netflix
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