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Paperback. The most "efficient" system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. Their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things, commonly called organizational behavior. This book is about the two best historical examples of such "efficiently-run" resource management. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 240.
In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything works to the maximum benefit of those who control these human resources. Accordingly, the most "efficient" system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. In other words, their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things. This is ... Read more
In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything works to the maximum benefit of those who control these human resources. Accordingly, the most "efficient" system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. In other words, their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things. This is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
Number of Pages
138
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761851875
SKU
V9780761851875
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About Jon H. Huer
Jon Huer received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1975 and is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written a dozen books of social criticism, including The Wages of Sin, Tenure for Socrates, and also The Dead End, which TIME Magazine's Lance Morrow called "an important and often brilliant book."
Reviews for Auschwitz, USA
…Frightening.
Timothy Flack, formerly of Stars & Stripes In so much as people are relegated to numbers either for a specific purpose or no purpose at all, they are dehumanized. And while the method used to dehumanize people may or may not lend itself to judicial processes, political and such, the fact remains that in such circumstances, consumers are ... Read more
Timothy Flack, formerly of Stars & Stripes In so much as people are relegated to numbers either for a specific purpose or no purpose at all, they are dehumanized. And while the method used to dehumanize people may or may not lend itself to judicial processes, political and such, the fact remains that in such circumstances, consumers are ... Read more