Scientific Management
The Principles of Scientific Management
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By: Frederick W. Taylor
Date: 1911
Source: Taylor, Frederick W. The Principles of Scientific Management. New York: Harper Brothers, 1911. Reprinted in the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. Available online at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html; website home page: http://www.fordham.edu (accessed October 11, 2002).
About the Author: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) developed the concept of scientific management, a system of managerial control that stressed the rationalization of production processes. Taylor's work as a foreman in the steel industry in the 1880s led him to study how the precise management of workers' actions could improve industrial productivity. By the early twentieth...
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