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During the twentieth century organizational understanding has increased. This 7 page paper examines how the changes have impacted on the automotive industry, from the early days of Ford and the first production line to the use of the human relations school and the present of tools such as empowerment and job rotation that can now be seen. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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industry, the change started to occur when Ford took on the ideas of Frederick Winslow Taylor and developed a production line that was able to produce cars at a much
faster and cost effective manner than the previous system where cars were worked ion by the same people from start to finish. His production line was based on scientific
management theories, also known as Taylorism. Frederick. Taylor, a perfectionist who hated waste of any sort. Taylor argued that even though tasks
had been broken down into component parts workers still retained discretion on how to perform tasks. This discretion he argued gave the workers power and that workers with this discretion
would under work and using the control which they gained to their own advantage (Huczyniski et al, 1996). This was possible as management remained ignorant of the processes involved. Taylors
theories were designed to put management in control, designing, using scientifically measured studies these, the most efficient work methods and then organising the and controlling workers to ensure maximum
efficiency (Huczyniski et al, 1996). Job design would involve the standardisation procedures and tools, then the one best method would be dictated to the most suitable employee, should perform the
task in their machine like manner. Taylors theories made assumptions and mans and motivation to work, his model was Adams Smiths economic man,
viewed that employees only motivation was their money, a view he demonstrated at Bethlehem Steel Co. (Baron, 1987). When Ford took up this system his output increased, but there were
also some costs. Ford lost many of his original workers and their staff turnover rate rose to 400% (Baron, 1987). To bring
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