scientific management

collocation in English

meaningsofscientificandmanagement

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scientific
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
us
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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management
noun
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪdʒ.mənt/
us
/ˈmæn.ədʒ.mənt/
the control and organization ...
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(Definition ofscientificandmanagementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The development ofscientificmanagementwas embedded in political and moral controversy from the beginning.
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As was the case withscientificmanagement, defenders of behavioral psychology made ethical claims, as well as truth claims, in its favor.
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This is ascientificmanagementapproach that explicitly emphasizes feedback learning.
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Expansion and intensification were now to be achieved largely through increased mechanisation,scientificmanagementprinciples and the widespread use of biochemicals.
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The next stage, "scientificmanagement," was aimed at undermining craft production and replacing it with a centralized hierarchical order of salaried workers.
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Part of a technocratic reform tradition that also gave rise toscientificmanagement, the movement emphasized individual responsibility for safe behavior over corporate culpability.
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And it is demanded by thescientificmanagement, profit maximization, and accumulation that transformed the life-world during the second industrial revolution.
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The first is ideology, the second is part ofscientificmanagement.
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I have found some evidence that his work was important both forscientificmanagementand for behavioral psychology.
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Inscientificmanagementand behavioral psychology, the link to engineering is often explicit.
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The need for workers made imperative a very rapid, factory-like inspection, which had a counterpart in the philosophy ofscientificmanagement.
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Both the adherents ofscientificmanagementand its detractors understood it in moral and political terms.
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The latter looked upon wild animals as a source of revenue and rural social welfare after 1910, and doggedly resisted all attempts at their privatization or atscientificmanagement.
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Scientificmanagement, debates over socialism and behavioral psychology were all under way by 1915 and the term 'incentives' was in use.
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Scientificmanagementbroke down skilled crafts into a series of smaller work steps.
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Tugwell believed that the logic ofscientificmanagementrequired the extension of planning from the single factory to the industry and then to the entire economy.
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We must all feel that economy and thescientificmanagementof expenditure and the like are extremely important.
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All projects, whether funded from the public or private sector, will need to have ethical approval and will be reviewed by thescientificmanagementcommittee.
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This brings me to another important aspect of the question—scientificmanagement.
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