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EBM: The Hawthorne Studies

LDRLB

Elton Mayo, a scientific management researcher, wanted to examine the impact of work conditions on employee productivity. Mayo’s findings challenged many assumptions of scientific management. These new ideas would lay the foundation for a whole new way of thinking about management.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do.

McGregor 101
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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts

Harvard Business Review

million employees showed that in a whopping 85% of organizations — remember, these are some of the best companies in the world — employee motivation declines sharply after people have spent six months with their managers. .” A global survey of more than 50 Fortune 1000 companies and 1.2 The boring nature of work.