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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
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.
The Principles of Scientific Management is a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor where he laid out his views on principles of scientific management, or industrial era organization and deci
Scientific management
…inefficient.) Taylor recognized the nationally known term "scientific management" as another good name for the concept, and adopted it in the title of his influential 1911 monograph. The Midvale Steel Company, "one of America's great armor plate making plants," was the birthplace of scientific management. In 1877, Frederick W…
Principles of Scientific Management