Smith, Ian George and Boyns, Trevor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8056-8832 2005. Scientific management and the pursuit of control in Britain to c.1960. Accounting Business & Financial History 15 (2) , pp. 187-216. 10.1080/09585200500121249 |
Abstract
The intellectual content and intentions of scientific management theories, aimed at industrial performance and harmony, were largely absent from British management practice for a great part of the last century. The limited interpretation of scientific management in Britain was characterised by a focus on control, at the heart of which was the use of piecework. Criticisms of piecework surfaced notably in the 1960s, linked to criticisms of scientific management as a whole. This article argues that any failure of piecework was not necessarily a failure of scientific management, given the latter's diluted role in twentieth century British management practice.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Business (Including Economics) |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Scientific management; piecework; control; Britain |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN: | 0958-5206 |
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 10:50 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/41478 |
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