Frederick winslow taylor and the idea of worker participation: A brief against easy administrative dichotomies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1989

Abstract

The public administration literature tends to depict Frederick Taylor as promulgating a “men-as-machines” approach to motivation. The literature contrasts Taylor and Mayo/Maslow, leading to analysis that dichotomizes engineering and psychological theories of motivation. This dichotomization seriously distorts the thrust of Taylor's work, which actually prefigures many human relations insights currently attributed to Elton Mayo or Abraham Maslow. The partialization of Taylor's work raises questions about the way the discipline passes on knowledge. © 1989, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

Identifier

84965703875 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Administration Society

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1177/009539978902100102

e-ISSN

15523039

ISSN

00953997

First Page

20

Last Page

30

Issue

1

Volume

21

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