Comment Re:Deming (and Taylor too) (Score 1) 114
>I'd argue that the misapplication of Taylor's
>techniques were inhumane, not Taylor's work itself.
yeah, and I'd like to know more about that. but I think it's fair to say that b-schools were teaching the misapplication when they taught "Taylorism" to business. What I dislike is not the historical truth of the source (whatever that may be) but the impact of how these techniques were applied in real industrial settings. we're not talking scholarship here, right?
>techniques were inhumane, not Taylor's work itself.
yeah, and I'd like to know more about that. but I think it's fair to say that b-schools were teaching the misapplication when they taught "Taylorism" to business. What I dislike is not the historical truth of the source (whatever that may be) but the impact of how these techniques were applied in real industrial settings. we're not talking scholarship here, right?
