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TAYLORISM

Another way of increasing output is by
organising work. An American called
Frederick Winslow Taylor invented a new
system in the 1890s, which he called
‘Scientific Management’. It is also
known as Taylorism or industrial
engineering.
Under his system, all work was broken

down into its smallest repetitive
elements, and divided between workers.

Workers were timed with the help of
stopwatches and had to fulfil a certain
target every day.

OUTSOURCING

• The firm has outsourced all services like cleaning, and
security, as well as the manufacture of parts. The parts
suppliers are located around the factory and send the
parts every two hours or just-in-time.

• Outsourcing and just-in-time keeps costs low for the
company, but the workers are very tense, because if the

supplies fail to arrive, their production targets get delayed,
and when they do arrive they have to run to keep up. Due
to this they get exhausted.