Can you think of potential drawbacks to retailers using labor-waste elimination systems based on scientific management principles, as described in the text? Do you believe that scientific management characteristics will ever cease to be a part of organizational life, since they are now about 100 years old? Discuss.

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Can you think of potential drawbacks to retailers using labor-waste elimination systems based on scientific management principles, as described in the text? Do you believe that scientific management characteristics will ever cease to be a part of organizational life, since they are now about 100 years old? Discuss.

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