Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce corporations in the world and has built a reputation for fast, low-cost service. To rapidly and efficiently move goods from production to consumption, however, Amazon relies on a logistics network that entails significant investments in infrastructure...

The Taylor Review should be commended for recognising the success of the UK’s flexible labour market and for refusing to endorse the outright bans on zero-hours contracts and app-based “gig” economy advocated by the Labour Party, trade unions, and other pressure groups. However, its...

Problem solving skills are increasingly important to be able to tackle the complex problems encountered in the business world. Nowadays is increasingly important to achieve sustainable development, focusing not only on economic profit but also on creating social value. It is widely agreed that...

1. Organisation and work organisation -- 2. Taylorism and Fordism -- 3. The bureaucratic organisation -- 4.The socio-technical school -- 5. Total quality management (TQM) and process organisation -- 6. Organising for change, learning and knowledge -- 7. Professional organisation and new public...

Within the boundary of scientific knowledge for management, we discuss the divergence between practical demand for knowledge integration to solve complex problems and scientific fragmentation of academic knowledge for simplicity. We suggest the current incentives underlying elite scientific...

The need to introduce scientific management and change management, while respecting the requirements for efficiency and transparency in the security industry, requires the corresponding responsibility to the obligations and adaptability to the changes in the security environment, to the risks...

Let () be a differentiable function on the real line , and let be a point not on the graph (). Define the illumination index of to be the number of distinct tangents to the graph of which pass thru . We prove that if ″ is continuous and nonnegative on , ″ ≥ 0 outside a closed interval of...

In this paper we consider the problem of best approximation in (), 1 ≤ ≤ ∞. If , 1 ≤ ∞, denotes the best -approximation of the element ∈ ℝ from a proper affine subspace of ℝ, ∉ , then , where is a best -approximation of from , the so-called natural best -approximation. Our aim...

This article investigates the motivation of contingent workers in the gig economy of China, particularly focusing on the two Mobile Food Delivery Aggregators (MFDA) - Meituan and Ele.me that controls over 80% of the food delivery market in China. The convenience of one "super-app" on phone,...

Morris L. Cooke, a disciple of Frederick W. Taylor, is widely known for his work with municipal organizations. However, few know he is also regarded as the father of rural electrification in the United States. This paper examines Cooke's struggle for rural electrification and the significant...

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welchen Stellenwert die fortschreitende Digitalisierung für die (Weiter-)Entwicklung einer Wissensgesellschaft und einer wissensbasierten Ökonomie besitzt. In jüngeren Debatten wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Digitalisierung eine neue Qualität von "Wissen"...

This paper represents the series of working papers for RANEPA Master of Global Public Policy academic programme. In this essay the application of the Tailor's scientific management approcah for public administration discussed. Author uses pro- and contra- argumentation and apply to the...

Lliterature on Taylorism has surprisingly ignored the role of its payment systems, while the results achieved on Ford's five-dollar day programme appear contradictory and sometimes isolated from the organisational change simultaneously undertaken. I seek to fill these theoretical gaps. I provide...

In this article, we take a look at why and how managers should communicate with their employees the value of scientific management and why it is still relevant today. Moreover, we will show managers how they should use communication to address employees’ feelings of unfairness. Finally, we...

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the proliferation of scientific management and then to consider its effect on business and society. Our examination begins with a brief survey of various management approaches that emerged in the early twentieth century. We focus on Frederick Taylor, the...

Bringing science back into culture has relevant consequences not for science practitioners, but also for companies and society in general. We need to renew the education of scientists and managers integrating science and management within culture as unifying context. -- science ; scientific...

This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and...