Next Taylorism

In 1911, Frederick W. Taylor published one of the most outstanding scientific cornerstones for the production system of the 20th century The Principles of Scientific Management. Today, industrial production is confronted with a change towards knowledge-intensive and transformable production systems, which are characterized by knowledge work. A Taylor-based reconception of knowledge work has to develop an understanding of knowledge work as a special form of communication. The corresponding scientific background for such an endeavor can be found in system theory and second-order cybernetics. The book conceptualizes the organization of knowledge work for the first time as a function which coordinates and controls knowledge work from within and which initially discusses and applies methods, the so-called MXM, on the knowledge workers.

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Lukas Scheiber received his MA in Sociology, Business Administration and Economics from the University of Stuttgart. After finishing his studies, he worked as a researcher at the Lucerne Business School. In 2008, he started to work as a doctoral researcher (DFG fellowship) at GSaME - Graduate School of Excellence advanced Manufacturing Engineering, University of Stuttgart. After finishing his doctorate in 2011, the author started to work at GSaME as an academic assistant.

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Contents: What Next Taylorism is all about? Facts and Challenges What Knowledge Work is all about? The Status Quo of Scientific Rules How to Observe Knowledge Work: A New Heuristic Standpoint Operationalization for Observing Knowledge Work: Configuration of Rules Taylorism and Scientific Management: Algorithms of Manual Work Next Taylorism: Coordination and Control of Knowledge Work.