Management Gurus-David Evans

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In his film of 1936, Modem Times, Charlie Chaplin shows business life as a kind of bad dream.

The film is set in a huge factory where people are simply parts of a machine. The workers are

not allowed to talk and they are not expected to think. Their jobs are boring and their lives are

ruled by the clock. Every action is measured by managers in white coats. Above them all, there

is the figure of the boss. He's the man who owns everything, controls everything and sees

everything. He even gives orders to workers while they're in the company's washrooms!

According to Chaplin, this was the terrible world that had been created by the ideas of

Frederick Taylor. Today, Taylor is remembered as the father of scientific management. He

has almost certainly had a bigger effect on business than any other thinker. His methods

were copied by businessmen like Henry Ford in the USA and political leaders like Lenin in

Russia. Even now, many companies are still managed according to his ideas.