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What are Fordism and Post-fordism? Compare and contrast the working and production arrangements typical to each.
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What are Fordism and Post-fordism? Compare and contrast the working and production arrangements typical to each. Fordism and Post-fordism are key concepts in industrial/organisational development as they have had a large impact on universal organisational practices and still do in the contemporary era. In the USA between 1880 and 1910 the rapid industralisation period produced the early large organisations whereby Ford (motor company) was one of them. (Huczynski & Buchanan 2001:414). They are types of job design which involve both the workers and managemtn - workers how they carry out work procedures and managemtent of how they deisgn and organise tasks. The two concepts are often misunderstood and this paper seeks to address detailed definitions before providing comparisons and distinctions between them. fordism was first obviously so need 2 concentrate on how this developed first. I will alos focus on Tayllors scientific mgt principles as they were highly influential to how Fordism...
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