Clockwork

One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightened competition. Clockwork shows how Frederick Taylor and his followers attempted to meet these challenges through "scientific management, " a radical program to organize every aspect of production under a regime of quantitative measures and systematic planning. Clockwork is the only film on Taylor's work and its continuing influence on the modern workplace. The film includes original historical footage which Taylor and his contemporaries, the Gilbreths, shot for the pioneering time-motion studies which paved the way for the modern automated assembly line and unskilled factory worker. Clockwork shows how even the latest computer assisted design and manufacturing systems unwittingly incorporate Taylor's theories of production management. Today, many organizational theorists argue we must urgently challenge Taylor's legacy if America is to develop the participative workplace needed for the high value-added production of today's global economy. "Extremely useful for students of management history and industrial engineering. An indispensable text." - George Strauss, University of California, Berkeley "An historic film. A great piece of work...I recommend its purchase by any university or business school." - Charles Wrege, Academy of Management historian "Generates a healthy discussion of 'scientific management'... American industry needs more such films." - David Shayt, Society of Industrial Archeology.

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"One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightened competition. This program shows how mechanical engineer Frederick Taylor attempted to meet these challenges through "scientific management," an early 20th-century program aimed at organizing and making ruthlessly efficient all aspects of industrial production. The film includes original footage which Taylor and his peers shot for the pioneering time-motion studies that paved the way for automated assembly lines."
"Studies the Role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of scientific management in the early twentieth century. Explains the techniques Taylor used to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines."
"One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightened competition. Clockwork shows how Frederick Taylor and his followers attempted to meet these challenges through "scientific management, " a radical program to organize every aspect of production under a regime of quantitative measures and systematic planning. Clockwork is the only film on Taylor's work and its continuing influence on the modern workplace. The film includes original historical footage which Taylor and his contemporaries, the Gilbreths, shot for the pioneering time-motion studies which paved the way for the modern automated assembly line and unskilled factory worker. Clockwork shows how even the latest computer assisted design and manufacturing systems unwittingly incorporate Taylor's theories of production management. Today, many organizational theorists argue we must urgently challenge Taylor's legacy if America is to develop the participative workplace needed for the high value-added production of today's global economy. "Extremely useful for students of management history and industrial engineering. An indispensable text." - George Strauss, University of California, Berkeley "An historic film. A great piece of work...I recommend its purchase by any university or business school." - Charles Wrege, Academy of Management historian "Generates a healthy discussion of 'scientific management'... American industry needs more such films." - David Shayt, Society of Industrial Archeology."@en
"Based on the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor and his Scientific Management theories, this film shows how the principles were applied to industrial production."@en
"Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of "scientific management" in the early 20th century. Explains the techniques Taylor devised to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines."@en
"A hundred years ago, an engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor began a series of experiments which formed the basis of modern management. Using modern and archival footage, this film links Taylor's system of time study and managerial control to today's computerized tools and automatic factories to provoke discussion about a philosophy that sees control as an aim in itself."
""One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightened competition. Clockwork shows how Frederick Taylor and his followers attempted to meet these challenges through "scientific management", a radical program to organize every aspect of production under a regime of quantitative measures and systematic planning. Clockwork is the only film on Taylor's work and its continuing influence on the modern workplace. The film includes original historical footage which Taylor and his contemporaries, the Gilbreths, shot for the pioneering time-motion studies which paved the way for the modern automated assembly line and unskilled factory worker. Clockwork shows how even the latest computer assisted design and manufacturing systems unwittingly incorporate Taylor's theories of production management. Today, many organizational theorists argue we must urgently challenge Taylor's legacy if America is to develop the participative workplace needed for the high value-added production of today's global economy."--Conteneur."
"Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of scientific management in the early twentieth century. Explains the techniques Taylor used to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines."
"Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of scientific management in the early twentieth century. Explains the techniques Taylor used to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines."@en
"Discusses how Frederick Taylor and his followers attempted to solve problems of labor discontent, technological change, and worker productivity a century ago through "scientific management" -- the industrial engineering of human work. Describes the historical impact of Taylor's time-motion study and assembly-line production ideas, and how today's manifestations of Taylorism, such as computers-assisted manufacture and design technology, might also influence workers and the workplace."@en
""Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of scientific management in the early twentieth century. Explains the techniques Taylor used to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines.""
""One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightened competition. Clockwork shows how Frederick Taylor and his followers attempted to meet these challenges through "scientific management," a radical program to organize every aspect of production under a regime of quantitative measures and systematic planning."--Distributor's abstract."
"Through archival and contemporary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of scientific management in the early twentieth century. Explains the techniques Taylor used to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines."@en