Frank Bunker Gilbreth was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Gilbreth in about 1916
Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes to management. Scientific management is sometimes known as Taylorism after its pioneer, Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Frederick Taylor (1856–1915), leading proponent of scientific management
Photograph of East German machine tool builders in 1953, from the German Federal Archives. The workers are discussing standards specifying how each task should be done and how long it should take.