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Describe and evaluate the work of any one researcher who you consider to have made a particularly significant contribution to our understanding of organisations. Frederick Taylor
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Describe and evaluate the work of any one researcher who you consider to have made a particularly significant contribution to our understanding of organisations. Frederick Taylor's work was taking place in a time period when the United States of America was undergoing mass industrialisation after the Civil War. National industries grew out of local trades; what were once small factories rapidly became large organisations with new technologies for production and mass workforces.1 Many large corporations such as Ford, Esso and United States Steel were developed in this time; however they all faced the same problem; there was only a limited pool of skilled workers to recruit from. Many labourers were based in the agricultural regions of America or were immigrants from Europe. Directing the efforts of workers with little understanding of the English language, few required skills and no experience of working in the disciplined region of a factory, left...
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