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Consider these statements about Taylor's scientific management. Statement 1: Taylor's 'mental revolution' required both workers and management to shift focus from dividing surplus to increasing the surplus through cooperation. Statement 2: Taylor's principle of 'harmony, not discord' implies that conflict between workers and management is natural and should be settled through trade unions. Statement 3: Taylor advocated scientific selection and training of workers. Which is correct?

Only statements 1 and 3 are correct. Mental revolution means cooperating to increase the surplus instead of fighting over its division, and Taylor favoured scientific selection and training. Statement 2 is wrong because 'harmony, not discord' means avoiding conflict, not treating it as natural.

  1. AOnly statements 1 and 2
  2. BOnly statements 1 and 3Correct
  3. COnly statements 2 and 3
  4. DAll of statements 1, 2 and 3

Explanation

Mental revolution is about cooperation to enlarge the surplus rather than quarrelling over its division, so statement 1 is true. Taylor's 'harmony, not discord' means that conflict should be avoided through mutual trust, not accepted as natural, so statement 2 is false. Scientific selection and training is a Taylor principle, so statement 3 is true.

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