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the humanist school of though where empowerment of employees and increased discretion are seen to create increased loyalty and better levels of productivity, the perpetuated to be used by Nissan  in the article provided by the student, appears to contradict all of the empirical evidence. However, on a deeper examination there is a good deal of evidence to suggest that  this article supports much empirical evidence when it comes to motivation theory, organisation culture ideas and the way in which power is used or abused. The first aspect is to  look beyond the initial impression of a loyal workforce and to understand the two forms of management. There are two main approaches with a third developing form the  modern manifestation of the first. The first is scientific management, also known as Taylorism or Fordism and the adoption of the model of economic man, the second model is the  humanist school, where there is the embodiment of the model of social man. By looking at the different models it is possible to see how the operations at Nissan may  have become a hybrid taking the worst form each model and applying them in a scenario that makes traditional resistance impotent due to the role taken on by the union.  Scientific management ideas were founded by Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylors theories were designed to put management in control, designing, using scientifically  measured studies these, the most efficient work methods and then organising the and controlling workers to ensure maximum efficiency (Huczyniski et al, 1996). Job design would involve the standardisation procedures  and tools, then the one best method would be dictated to the most suitable employee, should perform the task in their machine like manner. The tasks were broken down into