Deck 12: Scientific Management in Retrospect

Question 1

Early scientific management theory was consistent with the social values of reward for individual effort and the virtues of "rational man,"
that is, individuals were directed by their own self-interest.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Real wages (that is, the purchasing power of wages) for workers declined during Taylor's era because of his attitude toward unions.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The political articulation of the Social Gospel was found in the Populist-Progressive Movement.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Progressives opposed scientific management because of Taylor's statements about labor leaders in the U.S.

Question 5

The ideas of scientific management matched Alfred Chandler's notion of:

A) resource accumulation
B) multidivisional organizations
C) strategy and structure
D) rationalization of resource utilization
E) none of the above

Question 6

To those who followed the Social Gospel, unions:

A) needed to form a separate political party
B) were instruments of social and economic reform
C) would decline as business leaders practiced welfare techniques more
D) would finally enable organized workers to catch up with the wages of non-organized employees
E) none of the above

Question 7

What ideas or techniques of Taylor and other scientific management writers contributed to meeting industry's needs for better resource utilization?

Question 8

What was the "collision effect"? According to Scott, what "ethics"
collided? Where did Taylor's philosophy fit in terms of these ethics?

Question 9

According to your text, the task of government and political justification has revolved around balancing two themes. What were these themes? Where was the "balance"
during the scientific management era? Where is it now?