%0 Book
%A Lukas Scheiber
%D 2012
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653016864
%T Next Taylorism
%B A Calculus of Knowledge Work
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-01686-4
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046079
%X In 1911, Frederick W. Taylor published one of the most outstanding scientific cornerstones for the production system of the 20th century – The Principles of Scientific Management. Today, industrial production is confronted with a change towards knowledge-intensive and transformable production systems, which are characterized by knowledge work. A Taylor-based reconception of knowledge work has to develop an understanding of knowledge work as a special form of communication. The corresponding scientific background for such an endeavor can be found in system theory and second-order cybernetics. The book conceptualizes the organization of knowledge work for the first time as a function which coordinates and controls knowledge work from within and which initially discusses and applies methods, the so-called MXM, on the knowledge workers.
%K Wissensarbeit, Systemtheorie, Kybernetik, Netzwerkanalyse, Laws of Form, Luhmann, Niklas, Taylor, Frederick Winslow
%G English