... objectives to Taylorism. The strength of today’s reorganizations lies in attaining these objectives simultaneously. The consequences for people, however, in terms of their relationship with work, do not necessarily change. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Taylorism BPR Organizational theory...

... explanation for the resilience of Taylorism. Finally, the paper makes inferences from results obtained in organizations where a more radical break with Taylorism has been attempted. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Taylorism BPR Organizational change If we wish to have a bearing on where...

...Hans Pruijt BPR can be deconstructed into four different identities. In the first place it is a product of the management fad industry. In the second place it is part of a neo‐Taylorist movement because of the following characteristics: a top‐down streamlining of operations, unproblematic...

...Paul Lillrank; Sami Holopainen Business process reengineering (BPR) is following a typical maturity cycle as a business fad. Some of the more radical and flashy elements are omitted as the basic principles integrate into common sense and business and engineering school curricula. The ways...

... problematic in the past and it promises to become worse in the future with larger, more comprehensive software applications. Business process re‐engineering (BPR) adds to this significant problem by exhorting managers to undertake massive change ‐ including new information systems ‐ using autocratic methods...

...Jos Benders; Robert‐Jan van den Berg; Mark van Bijsterveld Business process re‐engineering (BPR) is described as a management fashion. Manage‐ment fashions are introduced on the market for management knowledge by fashion‐setters, who are often consultants. Characteristic for management fashions...

.... Integrating multiple change initiatives requires a structural learning mechanism. The learning mechanism is created to lead, design, and implement the overall change effort. This paper reports on BPR at Blue Shield of California. The theoretical implications of system‐wide transformation and learning...

... are identified. © MCB UP Limited 1997 BPR Employee share ownership plans Organizational change Participation Sociotechnical theory Many new employee ownership arrangements such as employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) create a unique management‐employee situation. Management and employees...

... and popularity of these methods and tools, a study of the availability and use of methods in business process re‐engineering (BPR) projects was carried out in five large consulting companies. Identifies six functions of methods on the basis of this study. Finds that methods play important roles both...