Ford and Taylorism

Ford and Taylorism

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Part 1: In your blog, you should address the following two sections: (1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity. (2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject. Visit the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking. Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI Questions to consider: 1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form today? 2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in that? Explain. 3. This ‘clip’ is showing history from 100 years ago. Some would say that ‘the world has moved on’ and these ideas are out of date. However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain. Referance Harvard Part 2: In your blog, you should address the following two sections: 1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity. 2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject. Visit the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking. Activity 1: Linear Programming Word Problem URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U Questions to consider: What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video? What would be the limitations of linear programming? In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making? Reference Harvard