Lyndall Urwick
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Lyndall Fownes Urwick was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of manageme
1930 Autochrome by Georges Chevalier
Urwick Orr & Partners (1934)
Urwick in 1967
Charles Bedaux
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Charles Eugène Bedaux was a French-American millionaire who made his fortune developing and implementing the work measurement aspect of scientific management, notably the Bedaux System. Bedaux was fri
Lyndall Urwick
…particularly keen to promote the writings of Henri Fayol to an English audience. Having returned to Britain, in 1934 Urwick established, with John Orr of Bedaux Britain, a management consultancy named Urwick, Orr & Partners (UOP). UOP's slogan was Profit on Principle: A British Service for British Business in the…
"Bedaux measures labor". Bedaux consultancy advertising booklet, 1928.
"Stop Bedaux Hell with a "Daily Worker" swell." A cartoon attacking the Bedaux B in the Daily Worker, 1935.
The Château de Candé, where Charles Bedaux hosted the Windsors' wedding. Photo 2007.
Charles E. Bedaux: The Bedaux Unit Principle of Industrial Measurement, Journal of Applied Psychology, 1921. PDF, click to read.