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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Scientific management"”.
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The application of scientific management to the Watertown arsenal
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth's Extensions of Scientific Management Into Women's Work, 1924-1935
… Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) was a pioneer of scientific management who applied her expertise to women working as department store employees, homemakers, and consumers. Through her efforts between 1924 and 1935, techniques of motion study and industrial psychology which were originally designed …
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The demise of industrial paternalism: the case of southern textiles, 1880-1940
… labor market, the consolidation movement, scientific management, social legislation, and worker organization. My results indicate that the introduction of scientific management negated the substance of paternalistic relations, but the form of paternalism, namely the mill village, continued …
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Reconceiving curriculum: an historical approach
… practices by employing “social efficiency” and scientific management to more effectively organize American education. Social efficiency and scientific management became the underlying premises of Ralph Tyler’s (1949) rationalization of the school curriculum. During the nineteen seventies, …
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Educational Leadership and its Impact on Life in Schools: A Critical Interpretation
… the ideological history of the field, based in scientific management and efficiency, has manifested itself in the current accountability polices and impacted what counts as knowledge in the current research done in educational leadership.
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… concerns himself with how capitalism, socialism, scientific management, and totalitarianism positively and negatively impacts not only individuals, but also the world at large. Therefore, rather than focusing on ideology alone, I dissect their respective cityscapes, illustrating how the systems …
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Wage Incentives: An Evaluation in Terms of Contemporary Motivation Theories
… in the 1880's known as the Taylor System or the Scientific Management System. He did this in an attempt to increase the productivity of labor. His system was quite successful and was very widely accepted in industry. Although there are many variations of this plan in industry today, it is still …
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Further investigation of body twist assisted reaches and moves, body twist assisted reaches and moves where the supply level is of normal height
… In order to accomplish this aim, the use of scientific methods has become so common and extensive a practice in industry that it is now considered the basis of modern industrial development. Many developments have been made in the several fields to which this principle has been applied, among …
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The Influence of Livestock grazing on Plant Species Diversity and Distribution at Kiranjeranje Ward-Kilwa District
… that combine traditional pastoral knowledge, scientific management principle and pastoral local institution, Also a long-term conservation plant in necessary to ensure grazing dos not threaten existing vegetation and biodiversity.
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Effective fisheries management with few data: A management procedure approach
… as an essential requirement for sound fisheries management. An alternative process less commonly adopted for the provision of reliable on-going management advice is called the Management Procedure (MP) approach. This approach is pro-active and strategic rather than reactive and tactical, and …
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Effective fisheries management with few data: a management procedure approach
… as an essential requirement for sound fisheries management. An alternative process less commonly adopted for the provision of reliable on-going management advice is called the Management Procedure (MP) approach. This approach is pro-active and strategic rather than reactive and tactical, and …
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Aviation risk management
Risk management is considered to be an application of general concepts in scientific management of a particular problem of exposure to risk of loss. It is concerned with identifying objectives, analysing the data regarding the nature of the problem, evaluating the pure risks deriving from the …
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Finding the higher ground : assessing contrasting approaches to planning for climate change induced resettlement
… be typified as authoritarian in nature, favoring scientific management by a cadre of professional, centralized planners. The American approach can be considered market-oriented and laissez faire, minimizing government intervention. The conclusion reached is that both planning frameworks have …
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The pedagogical significance of supervision and inspection in black secondary schools with special reference to KaNgwane
… and inspection procedures. Application of the scientific management procedures, such as 'Supervision and Inspection by Objectives* (SIBO), have better chances of improving the quality of education than a haphazard approach devoid of clear objectives. It is hoped that the recommendations …
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Organization theory : historical-theoretical development and the implications of technology
… the following stages : (1) classical theory, (2) scientific management, (3) human factor industrial psychology, (4) the human relations movement, and (5) organizational psychology or "nee-human relations". This thesis looks at landmark contributions, emphasizing the distinct approach, choice of …
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Building resilience towards natural hazards: cross-‐scale knowledge and institutional linkages.
… or security that was fundamental to risk management in the past, collapses. In this context, the notion of ‘risk society’, introduced by Ulrich Beck in 1992, is considered as a shifting paradigm in world security, where our modern society becomes ever more interdependent and more complex, …
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"Revolution can be avoided" : Le Corbusier and Taylorism in France, 1914-1929
… adoption of Frederick Winslow Taylor's Scientific Management in 1918 was a pivotal moment in Modern architecture. Taylorism promised social stability through the rationalization of the factory, increased profits and workers' wages. The adaptation of Tayloristic standardization and …
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What! Is This the Kitchen?: Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959
… but by secular zeal for the new field of scientific management, which she adapted to the home and helped to sell to housewives vis a vis the Hoosier Manufacturing Company, for whom she was a spokesperson. Finally, in the 1950s, shelter magazines took the singular figure of a domestic …
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