Fordism worked as a mutually reinforcing bundle of HR, operations, and control systems

Evidence

Take, for instance, “Fordism,” which is characterized by complementary management systems in human resources (hiring and firing of low skilled labor), operations (mass production), and organization (hierarchy of control), and which for quite some time constituted, through repeated practicing, a specific capability amounting to a competitive organizational advantage. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 84

Categorization

• CANDY: Fordism as a three-part lock-and-key system (low-skill hiring, mass production, control hierarchy) is a tidy fact to drop in conversation.