ARE WE GOING BACK TO TAYLORISM WITH COVID-19?

COVİD-19 AND TAYLORISM

Abstract

The importance of Classical Management Approach in management science is an undeniable fact. Within this management approach, the "Scientific Management Principles" presented by Frederick Taylor to the management world have an important place. In the Classical Management Approach, people are seen as machines and it is focused on how efficiently employees can perform in addition to machines. Today, a new epidemic has broken out, which is called Covid-19, which affects the whole world. Covid-19, which has turned into a global pandemic, has reached very serious mortality rates. Countries take very serious measures within the scope of combating the pandemic and try to protect their citizens from the epidemic. The effects of the pandemic also affected working life and many professional groups had to reorganize their workflows and job designs. This article aims to explain how digitalization and Covid-19 affect the management world and working life and talk about the interrelationships of Covid-19, digitization, and Taylorism.