Frederick Winslow Taylor's management theories

F W Taylor is a scientific management theorist. His industrial theories were centralized around these four main points:

Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks.
Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than passively leaving them to train themselves.
Provide "Detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task" (Montgomery 1997: 250).
Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.
Taylor saw workers as assets, not as humans. He did not take into consideration of workers emotions, esteem or motivation, therefore dehumanizing his workers.

This makes him highly admired by the ciphers in We where the One State runs by the basis of Taylor's management theories. Strict timetables are enforced using the "table of hours", ciphers are constantly under "detailed supervision" and all tasks have been broken down, analyzed, the un-necessary discarded to produce the most scientifically efficient way of carrying out tasks. An example of this is how in the world of One State "... by simply turning [a] handle, any of [them] could produce three sonatas an hour. What a struggle this was for our ancestors. They could create only if they drove themselves into fits of 'inspiration,' a strange form of epilepsy." One State has managed to take something as free as music, broken down each process mathematically, disposed of the parts not needed and cut it down into a simple mathematical process. This strips away the creativity and spirit found in music, furthermore dehumanizing the ciphers.