How does Taylorism (scientific management used to streamline mass production) resemble a bureaucracy?
a.) Routinization is found in assembly line work as well as bureaucracy.
b.) Both assembly lines and bureaucracies depend on hierarchies.
c.) Specialization is a characteristic of both an assembly line and a bureaucracy.
d.) Assembly lines and bureaucracies require workers to assume a fixed role.
Answer: c.) Specialization is a characteristic of both an assembly line and a bureaucracy.
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