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Next Taylorism: A Calculus of Knowledge Work: 87 New Edition
Author(s): Lukas Scheiber (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date: 5 April 2012
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 229 pages
- ISBN-10: 3631624050
- ISBN-13: 9783631624050
Book Description
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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About the Author
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.
