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The scientific management movement of the early twentieth century, F. W. Taylor, attempted to transform the administration of the workplace to increase profitability. Taylor put forward three principles of reorganisation. (1) Greater division of labour: production processes were to be analysed systematically and broken down to their component parts, so that each worker's job was simplified and preferably reduced to a single, simple task. Greater specialisation would lead to greater efficiency, while the de-skilling that followed simplification of tasks would also allow cheaper, unskilled labour to be hired. Greater division of labour would in turn remove the planning, organising and hiring functions from the shop floor. Greater specialisation was also to be encouraged among managers. (2) Full managerial control of the workplace was to be established for the first time, and managers were to be responsible for the coordination of the production process that greater division of labour had split.
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