ABSTRACT

The Taylorist System is characterized by a very fragmented labor division and a formal, centralized and authoritarian organization. This system refers to the labor process reorganization wherever it is, though its root and privileged place may have been the internal conflict that existed in the US plants by the end of the 19th century. The same conflict over passed the plants to reach the social institutions in a general way, there included universities, schools, hospitals, associations, public service, unions, by modeling these establishments as well as their professionals in accordance with its foundations and disciplinary principles, warranty of the laborer’s time control throughout the notion of “useful time”. The formal organization is characterized by the promotion of the separation between labor planning and its execution in the organizations, with one group (patrons, managers) being in charge of planning and the others (laborers) in charge of the execution. According to this system, the human being is conceived as a person that is endowed with physical energy and is solely moved by needs of economic order, the notion of “Homo economicus”.