Knowledge Management

Simple put it shows that by reducing the waste in labour and materials and increasing the output through individual processes creates efficiency. This has been conceived to be one of the most influential management tools of the last century and is still widely used today in such environments as call centres and fast food restaurants. Although M.Witzel acknowledges that this approach has distinct advantages within an enterprise, they still have devastating disadvantages. He goes on to talk about Emerson and how his works are contrasted with that of Taylor, as his belief was that efficiency was an organisational and human problem not just a mechanical one, (Witzel, M 2002) and that standards are essential in the working conditions and environment, which should be adapted to circumstances. Thus this journal shows the movement away from Taylorism through the creation of worker appreciation and decentralisation through the elimination of the disadvantages brought by Taylor.…