An approach to Frederick W. Taylor from the problem of the distribution of profits
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https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-0642/criteriolibre.2019v17n30.5751Keywords:
classical theory of management, payment systems, Frederick W. Taylor, wageAbstract
This article examines the problem of the distribution of earnings between worker and employer in the main works of Frederick W. Taylor. For this purpose, a critical reading of the original sources is used. Taylor justifies the need to offer fair wages, but also advocates for not sharing profits equally with the company’s workers. Also, beyond an isolated search for a mere increase in efficiency in the production of the company, we find in his work a Taylor that oscillates between a further attempt to exploit the workers and a further attempt to improve the conditions of society as a whole, including the conditions of these same workers, precisely through increasing such efficiency
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Peach, E. B., & Wren, D. A. (1991). Pay for Performance from Antiquity to the 1950s. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 12(1), 5–26.
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Scranton, Philip (1998). [Revisión del libro: The one best way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the enigma of efficiency, por R. Kanigel]. The Journal of American History, 85(2), 629-631.
Taylor, F. (1895). A piece rate system. En: The adjustment of wages to efficiency: Three papers on gain sharing, the premium plan, a piece rate system, (1896). New York: American Economic Association, the Macmillan Company.
Taylor, F. (1903). Shop management. (Republicado en 1911 con cambios menores). En: Thompson, K. (ed.) (2003), The early sociology of management and organizations. Vol. 1: Scientific management. Nueva York y Londres: Routledge.
Taylor, F. (1911) (Publicado en español en 1981). Principios de la administración científica. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo. Traducido de The Principles of scientific management, 1911, Nueva York: Harper y Row Publishers.
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Thompson, K. (ed.) (2003), The early sociology of management and organizations. Vol. 1: Scientific management. Nueva York y Londres: Routledge.
Wagner-Tsokamoto, S. (2008). Scientific Management revisited. Journal of Management History, 14(4), 348–372.
Wood, J. C., & Wood, M. C. (eds.) (2002). F. W. Taylor: Critical evaluations in business and management. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Wrege, C. D., & Perroni, A. G. (1974). Taylor’s pig-tale: A historical analysis of Frederick W. Taylor’s pig-iron experiments. Academy of Management Journal, 17(1), 6-27.
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An approach to Frederick W. Taylor from the problem of the distribution of profits. (2019). Criterio Libre, 17(30), 49-73. https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-0642/criteriolibre.2019v17n30.5751
