Fredrick Taylor and Scientific Management: Alive and Well at James & Smith

Jane D. Parent

Chapter 1.16 in Stories to Tell Your Students, 2011, pp 34-36 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract James & Smith is a company that specializes in risk assessment for large insurance companies. The company employs approximately forty people; most work out of an office in a small town in northern New England. Most are college educated and work in professional positions within the company. The average age of the employees is forty-five years. Many have worked in the insurance industry and in related fields for over twenty years.

Keywords: Office life; Time management; Work structure; Employee morale; Human fulfillment at work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230370432_16

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