... resource approach, and Contemporary approach. The traditional approach begins with the work of Frederick W. Taylor. His ideas on scientific management translate directly into motivation because of his system to base employee pay on quality and quantity of work. In his system employees who produce the best quality and the highest quantities receive the most pay. It was Taylor that thought that a worker should be paid for the amount of units they produced in a day, and get paid according to that. Taylor effectively assumed three major factors in the development if his theories: * That only muscle power was needed on the shop floor, brainpower was the province of the manager, and the worker should have no part in this aspect of production. A worker was not required to think, just do. * Taylor viewed workers very much as he did machines, with given power and capabilities and which could be ...

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