Table of contents
France in the 1950s: Taylorian modernity brought about by postmodern organizers?
Dominique BessonThe success of the French Taylorist approach stems from the ability of the first generation of French Taylorist managers to formulate the Taylorist rules in a rhetoric that French…
Repainting, modifying, smashing Taylorism
Hans PruijtSurvey data show that post‐Tayloristic production concepts are not developing to the extent that many researchers had originally expected. It also is inadequate to portray…
From Taylorism to post‐Taylorism: Simultaneously pursuing several management objectives
Jean‐Louis PeaucelleTaylorism is well known, for the organizational techniques that it implements. Post‐Taylorism innovates with news ways of working but its initiatives, in many ways, resemble its…
Isolation and technology: the human disconnect
Gina Vega, Louis BrennanManagement control over production has often meant control over one means of production: people. There is evidence of the use of social isolation to control human behavior…
Taylorism given a helping hand: How an IT system changed employees’ flexibility and personal involvement in their work
June TolsbyIllustrates how the implementation of a major information technology (IT) system within the Norwegian Army affected the way the employees perceived their flexibility and personal…
Negotiation and work flexibility in France: Towards a post‐Taylorian organizational approach
Yannick Schwamberger, Saïd YamiPresents the idea that the “Aubry” law context, which concerns the reorganization of working time, constitutes an encouragement to decentralize the collective negotiation…
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- Prof Slawomir Magala