Management and Organisations in a Global Environment Research Paper 1

Running head: MANAGEMENT
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Subject Title Management and Organisations in a Global Environment
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Table of Contents
Executive summary..................................................................................................................................2
Week 1, Activity-1: Ford and Taylorism.................................................................................................2
Week 3, Activity-4: Corporate culture in Toyota....................................................................................3
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................5
Reference List..........................................................................................................................................6

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Executive summary
The concept of Taylorism has helped Ford motors in increasing their level of production, as the cars
were being produced at a cheaper rate within the industry. The absence of politics within the
organization has resulted in increasing the production so that the economies of scale can be increased
(YouTube 2018).
The 7 dimension corporate culture adopted by Toyota has helped them in increasing the
production level, as the employees are assigned the tasks according to their knowledge and skills. The
organization is humble towards the employees that helps in motivating them and work with a better
attitude (YouTube 2018).
Week 1, Activity-1: Ford and Taylorism
The company was founded by Henry Ford in the year 1908 that helped in providing cheaper
cars to the customers so that they could travel easily. Taylor adopted some of the principles that
ensured that the employees within the organization can work in a smooth manner, which would result
in manufacturing cheaper cars and sold to the customers at a less profit (Lackner 2017).
The referred case study that is the video showed that the organization did not have any union,
which prevented the rise of politics within the organization. This resulted in carrying out the
production of the cars in a smoother manner, as the workers were mostly disciplined and the rate of
attrition within the organization was very high (Waring 2016). The higher rate of attrition was due to
the fact that the employees who could not perform in a proper manner were terminated. This resulted
in no security of the job among the employees within the organization (Witzel and Warner 2015).
In the modern world, workers who are present in Australia, America and Europe do not
follow the theory of Taylorism in a clear manner that used to be followed earlier. The change in the
technologies that has taken place recently has lead to the process of automation to be increased greatly
within the organizations. This has resulted in not acknowledging the previous methods that were
followed by the workers. The concept of Taylorism needs to be changed in the modern world so that it
can help the system to be more efficient and productive as well (Iuga and Kifor 2013).