A Quote by Henry Mintzberg

Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.

Henry Mintzberg

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Henry Mintzberg
Canadian - Businessman
Born: September 2, 1939

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

Ida Tarbell

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Henry Ford

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Marc Lamont Hill

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Steve Eisman

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

Walter Gropius

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Douglas McGregor

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

Reginald Fessenden

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

Chuck Palahniuk

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

Andy Hargreaves

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

Frederick E. Crane

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

H. L. Mencken

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Harvey Cushing

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

We use innovative technology to facilitate standardization of services, amenities and in-room experience, thereby helping maintain service standards.

Ritesh Agarwal

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Laura E. Richards

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