Scientific+Management


 * Scientific Management** is a new form of control in which social efficiency is reached under the leadership of experts. Optimality is reached at mass production and consumption. Such a process needs to be regulated and controlled in order to produce a consumers utopia (Webster).

It can be said that the quality of life at work extends to life outside of work. This can be evaluated by comparing the wages of the "expert leaders" to those of "general labourers".

Features of Scientific Management
References: Webster, Frank, Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Karrle Nordenstreng, and Puoskari Ensio. __The Information Society Reader__. 2nd ed. London: Rouledge Student Readers, 2002.p 66.
 * Social philosophy, a promise of reform through growth and expansion
 * Application of engineering principles to the industrial system of the production
 * Time and motion studies to ensure efficiency
 * Standarization
 * Factory work to be planned and coordinated, and controlled under expert direction
 * Information centralized/ controlled in planning department = potential for survillance and controlling prodction process
 * Ms means expert directions by engineers, factory planning, time and motion studies, standarization, and the intensive division of labours
 * Meant expert directions by engineers, factory planning, time and motion study, standardization, and the intensive division of labor.
 * Key word “efficiency”
 * Taylor proposed a “neat, understandable world in the factory, an organization of men whose acts would be planned, coordinated, and controlled under continuous expert direction.
 * Factory production was to become a matter of efficient and scientific management: the planning and administration of workers and machines alike as components of one big machine.