Taylor was just questioning the Status quo such as you are doing today. He was trying to apply scientific principles to the concept of work.

If Taylor was alive today he would have strongly supported social networking. He would criticize the organizations that work by rule of thumb severely.

Basically what Taylor did is stop taking the status quo as a sacred cow. He argued that workers wanted to be productive. Management had to provide the means and stop assuming that workers where fundamentally lazy,evil etc.

Social networking willneed someone like Taylor to make it happen at a large organization scale.