{"id":5201,"date":"2013-06-13T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:44:24","slug":"on-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"On Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/4c3827f6-d1d9-11e2-9336-00144feab7de.html#axzz2W6kAPv3e\">Andrew Hill<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harvard Business Review has dubbed the years between 1911 \u2013 when Frederick Winslow Taylor published his book The Principles of Scientific Management \u2013 and 2011 \u201cThe Management Century\u201d. Taylor\u2019s breakthrough was to see that production line productivity could be improved by using \u201cscientific\u201d methods of organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The approach has been criticised for imposing a mechanistic regime on workers in the interests of pure efficiency, but it triggered more research into psychological and sociological ways to make manufacturing more productive.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of management techniques have helped to improve the ability of managers to fulfil their fundamental task. China-based car manufacturers, for example, are using the production line efficiency methods pioneered by Japan\u2019s Toyota and others.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hill: Harvard Business Review has dubbed the years between 1911 \u2013 when Frederick Winslow Taylor published his book The Principles of Scientific Management \u2013 and 2011 \u201cThe Management Century\u201d. Taylor\u2019s breakthrough was to see that production line productivity could be improved by using \u201cscientific\u201d methods of organisation. The approach has been criticised for imposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}