DURING the last year or two much attention has been given to the results of analyses of industrial operations obtained by Dr. F. W. Taylor in the United States, and a system of scientific ...

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was a Quaker whose tombstone in Pennsylvania bears the inscription “The Father of Scientific Management”. He was born to a wealthy family in Philadelphia ...

All this is important because Taylor, with his system of scientific management, was the father of efficiency. From scientific management we get the lust for efficiency in business.

Developed by Frederick Taylor, the classical theory of management advocated a scientific study of tasks and the workers responsible for them. Scientific management theory aimed to provide workers with ...

Even the quickest deep dive into Taylor's "scientific management" would have revealed inconsistencies betraying a complete lack of true scientific method to anyone who might have cared to ask.

Frederick Winslow Taylor's ideas for maximizing industrial output still have currency today, more than a hundred years after he propounded them. He's worth a fresh look.

Offering a significant revision of prevailing views, Professor Nelson examines the actual implementation of scientific management in industry and finds that it bore only a superficial resemblance to ...

DURING the last year or two much attention has been given to the results of analyses of industrial operations obtained by Dr. F. W. Taylor in the United States, and a system of scientific ...