Levels of analysis
Consider if you were a photographer who has the perfect zoom lens and a great wide-angle lens. You can choose to photograph things in extreme detail or you can choose to photograph a big picture that provides a broader context.…
Category Sociology
Emancipation from Taylorism: Organizational designs and strategies
Taylorism has permeated every form of organization and has become the bedrock for most economies since he proposed his theory of scientific management in 1911. At the same time, Taylor was also the most maligned organizational theorist of all time.…
Criticism of Taylor’s scientific management
There has been a lot of criticism of Taylor’s scientific management and its assumptions concerning human behavior. Scientific management examined the job function of workers in the factories through an organizational system that incentivized work to resolve the conflict between…
Taylorism and scientific management
Scientific Management or Taylorism is a theory associated with Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 –1915), who was considered to be the father of scientific management. His work laid the foundation of modern management theories. Taylor’s work was at its peak during…
Social construction simplified!
Social construction is a theory that belongs to the symbolic interactionist perspective. Peter Burger and Thomas Luckmann presented the idea of social construction in the 1960s. They argued that social realities are constructed and maintained in social interaction. That is,…
