Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
‘The Fordist system led to both labour market and production inflexibility, which prevented organizations from competing in increasingly fluid markets’. Discuss
Member rating: No Rating | Words: | Submitted: Fri Mar 31 2006
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
Charlie Hanson 0402968 Industrial society 'The Fordist system led to both labour market and production inflexibility, which prevented organizations from competing in increasingly fluid markets'. Discuss the economic and workplace policies which were proposed under the broad title of 'flexibilisation', providing relevant examples. Word Count: 1503 Between 1908 and 1929, Henry ford clearly established the linkages between division of labour and mass markets. His methods of mass production came under the title of 'Fordism'. According to Meyer (1981) Fordism 1908-1913 had four basic principles; standardised product design, extensive use of new machine tool technology, flow line production and the implementation of Taylorism in relation to work processes. Taylorism involved a general principle of the maximum decomposition of work tasks, the divorce of direct and so called indirect labour, by which meant setting up, preparation and maintenance tasks on machinery and the minimisation of the skill requirements of any task leading to the minimum job-learning...
To see the full version of this document, and 145,348 others
