Toggling with Taylor: A Different Approach to Reading a Management Text*
运用文学批评的读者反应理论，通过“切换”阅读方法（在修辞性阅读和哲学性阅读之间切换），揭示了弗雷德里克·温斯洛·泰勒著作中未被识别的潜文本，并指出这种阅读方式能增强管理理论读者的批判能力。
ABSTRACT This paper identifies influential, but previously unrecognized, subtexts in the writings of Frederick Winslow Taylor. Working with analytical methods developed from reader‐response theories of literary criticism, we look at the words of the text as we share the standard meaning‐making of the management community, as well as through the words of the text searching out the worldview that emerges from our particular reading of the subtext. We have described our approach to reading as ‘toggling’: that is, switching between reading text ‘rhetorically’ and reading it ‘philosophically’. We conclude that reader identification with textual voices may appear in philosophical as well as rhetorical reading outcomes – that Taylor's text may inveigle readers into accepting a moral worldview wrapped up in a seemingly rational argument – and that ‘toggling’ would empower management theory readers.