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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good work but not that interesting,
This review is from: A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management Since Taylor (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series) (Hardcover)
I really looked forward to this book as I hoped it would be a full account of scientific management. Unfortunately, the focus of the work was more sociological than from an engineering or management perspective. The best chapter was the one on Managing by Numbers. In fact that chapter was a critical factor, or the push over the edge of the cliff, in my complete transition from operations research to a focus on the productions side of industrial engineering. Operations research is not a bad idea, but it seems that most ops research is driven by a desire for mathematical delight than on providing effective management solutions. Anyway, this book did a really good job describing the post-war quantitative mania in scientific management. I would not recommend this book for anything but that chapter.
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A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management Since Taylor (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series) by Daniel Nelson (Hardcover - May 1992)
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