Taylorism: "Managers have ideas and workers execute them"

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Frederick Taylorism, or the model of management that Taylor came up with in the industrial era, strips workers of their humanity and reduces them to resources that need to be executed like machines.
With this comes a specific worldview in which employees are no longer able to think for themselves and solve problems.
In order to solve problems and retain employees, companies now have to think and problem solve.

Alla Weinberg helps teams and organizations improve the quality of relationships at work. She has a background in design, but now calls herself a ‘work relationship expert.’ In this conversation, we discuss her new book, A Culture of Safety, and how teams can create environments that allow people to do their best work together.

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