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    Future Directions in Manual Materials Handling Research

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    As bases históricas da gestão da qualidade: a abordagem clássica da administração e seu impacto na moderna gestão da qualidade The historical principles of quality management: the classical management approach and its impact on modern quality management

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    Este artigo mostra como a Gestão da Qualidade, tal qual conhecemos hoje, embasou seu desenvolvimento em escolas fundamentais da Administração. Em particular, enfoca-se aqui a Escola Clássica, suas identidades e confrontos com a Gestão da Qualidade e seus reflexos nas suas principais ferramentas. Esta análise permite entender o verdadeiro alcance de conceitos e estratégias da Gestão da Qualidade, garantindo assim sua correta aplicação.<br>This paper shows how Quality Management, as we understand it today, has used the main concepts of fundamental management approaches. Here the impact of Classical Management Theory on Quality Management is considered. This analysis allows us to understand correctly the main concepts of Quality Management, as well as its main tools, in order to guarantee their correct application

    Towards neuroscientific management? Geometric chronophotography and the thin-slicing of the labouring body

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    The conventional history of the labour process suggests that Taylorism played a key role in the development and popularisation of production management techniques in general, and work science in particular. This paper argues that the work of Herman van Helmholtz, Edwaeard Muybridge, and Jules Etiennes Marey helped establish an ideology of the labouring body which not only pre-dated the work of Frederick Taylor, but which continues to influence management thinking and practices today
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