ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the nature of attractive mining work and provides the theoretical basis on which our subsequent discussions will be based. Scientific management – also known as Taylorism or the rationalization movement – was developed by the American engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor at the turn of the twentieth century. The real breakthrough for Taylor’s ideas came with the methods–time measurement (MTM) method, a system whereby each manual work operation could be broken down into its basic motions. Taylor’s methods have since developed within the framework of what became industrial psychology. The human relations school has its basis in the classic Hawthorne experiment carried out by Professor Elton Mayo at the Western Electrics Hawthorne Works in the outskirts of Chicago from 1924 until 1932. The sociotechnical school in a sense can be viewed as a combination of the human relations school and scientific management.
