First Conference on Scientific Organization of Labour

The First Conference on Scientific Organization of Labour was held in Russia in January 1921 to bring together experts in different fields around the study of the problems of human work.

Lenin had proposed a competition to produce a manual for the Scientific Organization of Labour following Platon Kerzhentsev publication of SOL. Kerzhentsev had outlined a three-fold approach:

  1. A subjective approach looking at the worker with a view to maximising their efficiency
  2. An objective approach focusing on the materials and tools used in the labour process
  3. An integrative approach looking at how the first two approaches interrelate in a rational method of work organisation.[1]

This conference was noted for a number of innovations:

Contributions

References

  1. 1 2 3 Neville Moray (2005), Ergonomics: The history and scope of human factors, Routledge, ISBN 9780415322577, OCLC 54974550, 041532257X
  2. Belykh, A. A. (July 1989). "A Note on the Origins of Input-Output Analysis and the Contribution of the Early Soviet Economists: Chayanov, Bogdanov and Kritsman". Soviet Studies 41 (3): 426–429. doi:10.1080/09668138908411823.
  3. Bogdanov, Alexander. Bogdanov's Tektology. Hull: Centre for Systems Studies Press.
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