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Length: 6 pages
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Abstract
According to this book reviewer, the management tradition of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford is increasingly under attack as a root cause of the decline in U.S. competitiveness. Where U.S. manufacturing is Taylorist (rigid, mechanistic, hierarchical, and functionally divided), Japanese manufacturing companies are presumably more holistic (flexible, agile, and organic). Japanese workplaces treat workers as contributors to corporate knowledge, and U.S. companies should follow suit, the argument goes.
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Abstract
According to this book reviewer, the management tradition of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford is increasingly under attack as a root cause of the decline in U.S. competitiveness. Where U.S. manufacturing is Taylorist (rigid, mechanistic, hierarchical, and functionally divided), Japanese manufacturing companies are presumably more holistic (flexible, agile, and organic). Japanese workplaces treat workers as contributors to corporate knowledge, and U.S. companies should follow suit, the argument goes.