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What is Taylorism? Analyze its merits and demerits.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Religion and Society

Taylorism, or scientific management, is the system of work organisation set out by the American engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor in The Principles of Scientific Management (1911). It treats the labour process as a technical problem: management, not the worker, should decide how every task is done, in what time and for what pay. Its merits…

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