Exercises on Fordism and Taylorism

The innovations in the organization of the production process, developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, became known from the derivation of the names of its main exponents, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford. In addition, Taylorism and Fordism characterize, respectively, two principles of work organization, called:

1. empiricism and artisanal production.
2. Scientific management and production lines.
3. Scientific management and production cells.
4. empirical management and production lines.
5. emotive management and dispersed production.

(UERJ) From the industrial revolution to the height of Fordism, which could easily be achieved with fossil energies, but on the reverse side of which an abyss opens, more than 200 years have passed; a short period of time, in which fossil natural resources resulting from millions of Earth years were spent .

ALTVATER, Elmar. The price of wealth . São Paulo:Unesp, 1995.

The text above expresses an assessment of the nature/society relationship of great importance for the planning of human activities. The characteristic of capitalist dynamics that translates the warning made by the author is in:

1. Technology innovation has determined the availability of renewable goods.
2. The change in energy standards prevented the adoption of environmental preservation policies.
3. Advancing environmental degradation has led to awareness of the end of industrial society.
4. The economic use of natural resources has outstripped the pace of renewal of the physical environment.

By adopting the assembly line, Henry Ford intended to cheapen the production of automobiles, so that it would become a common commodity, to the point that a worker in his company could buy one. The first model produced on an assembly line became world famous. This model was the:

1. Ford Fusion
2. Lincoln
3. Ford D
4. Ford Mercury
5. Ford T

In his Principles of Scientific Management , Frederick Taylor developed a system of organization of production processes that could be applied in any type of company, even if the experiments took place in industrial companies. Taylor presented some forms of work organization that include several characteristics, minus:

1. Stimulating production through wage compensation.
2. The division of the manufacturing process into elementary gestures.
3. Measurement and rationality in the use of raw materials and work tools.
4. Freedom for workers to choose the way they work.
5. The use of stopwatches to measure the time required to carry out activities.

Letter B. Taylor was recognized for his studies published in his book Principles of Scientific Management , and Ford for adopting the production line in its auto industry. The two measures used together made possible the mass production of industrial goods, leveraging the productivity of workers during the 20th century.

Letter D . Industrialization and the resulting way of life had fossil fuels as their energy matrix, which take longer to form than the speed at which they are used.

Letter E . It was with the Model T that Ford's companies began to use the assembly line in the production of automobiles, making their production cheaper and initiating the process of popularizing the automobile.

Letter D . Taylor's objective was to eliminate the initiative and control that workers exercised over the production process, seeking to extract from them the developed knowledge, improving it and transforming it into simple gestures to be performed uniformly.