Explain how scientific management principles have influenced the nature of labor-management relations in the U.S.
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Scientific management principles drove much of the mass manufacturing industry in the 20th century. These practices stress standardization, specialization, and efficiency achieved through time and motion studies. Key to the scientific management approach is the notion that engineers and managers, equipped with stop watches, video cameras, and calculators, can determine the most efficient way to do a job better than workers themselves can. The result was to "deskill" the workplace, making employees interchangeable, like parts to a machine. Workers were motivated through pay, rather than intrinsic rewards of the job. Worker input was not valued and supervisors were clearly "superior" in their roles. Employees were left feeling degraded, alienated, and bored by their jobs. These patterns of behavior have added to the adversarial relationship between management and labor in the U.S.
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