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Assess the contention that 'post-Fordist' changes in the organisation of work have improved the quality of employees' work experience. Provide examples to illustrate your answer.
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Assess the contention that 'post-Fordist' changes in the organisation of work have improved the quality of employees' work experience. Provide examples to illustrate your answer. Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 during a period of time in the USA of rapid industrialisation. It was within these years (1880-1910) that large organisations were produced, and Henry Ford's motor company was one of them. In 1908 the company initiated the production of the Model-T, of which the company sold 15million, it was the first car of its kind to built using a new type of production, Fordism. - Fordism is a form of industrial production that was born developed from F.W. Taylor's scientific management methods where the main aim is, as Abernathy (1978) wrote "product maximisation through tight control over the employee's every task movements." Fordism pioneered mass production by fragmenting and simplifying work tasks for employees. It incorporated the use...
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