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This 6 page paper looks at the stages of control, improvement and breakthrough in the way business are managed and operations take place. Each stage is examined looking at the philosophical and the practical ways that they have been implemented. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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there are four revolutions; control, improvement, breakthrough and reaching the essential. In each of these stages the revolution may be broken down into two aspects; the philosophical; looking at the
ideas and theories, and the practical, looking at the tools and processes used. This paper will look at three of these stages. The concept of control may be seen
as emerging with the industrial revolution and the ideas that lead to scientific management practices. The industrial revolution saw the sub-division of labour, this laid the ground for the firsrt
revolution; that of control, with the development of scientific management, founded by Frederick Winslow 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 those workers with this discretion would
under work and use the control which they gained to their own advantage (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2007). 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 and Buchanan, 2007). Job design would involve the standardisation procedures and tools, and then the one best method would be dictated
to the most suitable employee, should perform the task in their machine like manner. The tasks were broken down into the smallest components which would acquire the issues give or
training. This made the employees cheaper to hire as craftsmen were no longer required, as Babbage had already noted in his Great
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