Econ
Submitted by 93694 on June 21, 2009
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Econ
The history of managing people has reflected prevailing beliefs and atti¬tudes held in society about employees, the response of employers to public policy (for example, health and safety and employment legislation) and reactions to trade union growth. In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, the extraordinary codes of discipline and fines imposed by factory owners were, in part, a response to the serious problem of imposing standards of discipline and regularity on an untrained workforce. In the 1840s common humanity and politi¬cal pressure began to combine with enlightened self-interest among a few of the larger employers to make them aware of alternative ways of managing...
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