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The Changing Nature of Work

Explore Ford's wage strategies, thrifty habits, assembly line concept, and Taylor's scientific management influence. Delve into the Ford Whisper practice and its ergonomic significance. Witness the transformation of work conditions and methods in history. Learn how their ideas persist in modern business practices.

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The Changing Nature of Work

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  1. The Changing Nature of Work Section 8.4

  2. ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson, you should be able to: • Identify 2 reasons why Ford raised worker wages • Define and identify at least 4 “thrifty habits” and reasons why Ford pushed them • Define Assembly Line and its pros and cons • Define “Ford Whisper” • Identify Frederick Taylor and define scientific management

  3. Who was Frederick Taylor? • Wrote The Principles of Scientific Management • Encouraged Ergonomics • broke each operation down to the quickest, most efficient method of performance and set standards • Used cash incentives for workers to meet standards • Adopted by auto industry

  4. Big Question • What is Tom Hanks trying to do? • Why is he upset when he opens the package? • Scientific Management/Assembly Line

  5. Who was Henry Ford? • Industrialists car manufacturer • Inventor of the Assembly Line • Saw workers as a consumer • Doubled worker wages to $5 a day • $2 considered good

  6. What were Ford’s Thrifty Habits? • Attempted to shape their behavior • “Thrifty Habits” • Must learn English, take co advise, not gamble, drink, or engage in immoral behavior • Ford called “traitor to his class” • Reduced hrs. from 48 (6 days a week) to 40 (5 days a week) • Earned $264 thousand per day in 1922 • Allowed for low skilled or no skilled • Hired handicapped, immigrants, ex-convicts

  7. What is the Assembly Line? • Slow moving conveyer belt process where individual workers performed 1 basic, simple task over and over • Ergonomic • Designed to fit human body’s movement • Worked at waist level • Ford’s moved 6ft. Per minute

  8. What was work like on the Assembly Line? • Repetitive and boring • Each worker responsible for tiny part of total job • Worked at pace set by the assembly line • Little skill/thought required • Robot=Czech word • Man who acts like a machine or vice versa

  9. What was the Ford Whisper? • Workers forbidden from leaning, sitting, squatting, singing, talking, whistling and smiling • “Ford Whisper” • communicated without moving their lips

  10. Who was Frederick Taylor? • Wrote The Principles of Scientific Management • Encouraged Ergonomics • broke each operation down to the quickest, most efficient method of performance and set standards • Used cash incentives for workers to meet standards • Adopted by auto industry

  11. Conclusion • Ford and Taylor’s new methods of production had a profound impact of business. Consider where their ideas are used today. • WAWA, Genuardi’s, Business Offices, UPS, Federal Express, auto industry

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