HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. Workers need to adopt power skills in order to gain a sense of control over their career direction. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022. New HR Trends (2022).

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Critics lampoon the latest management buzzwords, labeling them as pretentious and shallow. In truth, though, management has made big strides. We have come a long way from Scientific Management and using a stopwatch to manage performance.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Gordon 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. In other words, higher career security is a function of employability, and that in turn depends on learnability. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Open-book Scientific Management 8