may 2011- a new era!

each new day can be a new era, if you gain any insight.

anyone who have read OB would remember Hawthorne experiments as well as, Taylor's 'principles of scientific management'. where in a a Steel plant in Philadelphia Taylor began series of experiments aimed at improving the efficiency of the plant’s machinists, about 100 years ago.

He observed and then by breaking down every job into small steps Taylor created an “algorithm,” or a system. the employees felt they were turned into automatons, and
later charlie chaplin showed this in his movie by becoming such a worker himself.

but factory owners used time-and-motion studies with the goal - as Taylor had defined it in his celebrated 1911 treatise, The Principles of Scientific Management, - to develop for every job, best method of work - to create an utopia of perfect efficiency.
and the Taylorism was born:- “In the past the man has been first,” “in the future the system must be first.”
...........what would you think of this quote NOW?

the person who gave industrial psychology or Organizational behavior such a jump a century ago, now helps to give OB / psychologists / HR professionals etc --> more work now... that is of, changing the system to look at human beings in a humane way... (and you thought only computer software people created programs to develop their own future hardware market ;)

lets go some 25 centuries back now...
"as people are beginning to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would - cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.”

And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”

They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”

so wrote Socrates, about 2500 years ago.

.........some feel, in next few years, language recognition software will improve a lot, and we wont have to read (we can hear webpages), and we wont have to even type - but just say what we want - and it will get typed on screen.
...and thus signalling the demise of reading & writing skills.

where's the world going to? ;) were the Luddites actually right?

let's see how many comments do i get for this.. ;)
maybe the new generation does like to type much..