The Principles of Scientific Management

The whole system rests upon a foundation of clearly defined laws and rules. Indeed, this book laid the groundwork for modern organization and decision theory.As an engineer for a steel company, Taylor made careful experiments to determine the best way of performing each operation and the amount of time it required, analyzing the materials, tools, and work sequence, and establishing a clear division of labor between management and workers. His experiments resulted in the formulation of the principles expounded in this remarkable essay, first published in 1911.Taylor advocated a scientific management system that develops leaders by organizing workers fo

For more than 80 years, this influential work by Frederick Winslow Taylor — the pioneer of scientific management studies — has inspired administrators and students of managerial techniques to adopt productivity-increasing procedures. Correct application of these principles, according to Taylor, will yield truly astonishing results.. The whole system rests upon a foundation of clearly defined laws and rules. Indeed, this book laid the groundwork for modern organization and decision theory.As an engineer for a steel company, Taylor made careful experiments to determine the best way of performing each operation and the amount of time it required, analyzing the materials, tools, and work sequence, and establishing a clear division of labor between management and workers. His experiments resulted in the formulation of the principles expounded in this remarkable essay, first published in 1911.Taylor advocated a scientific management system that develops leaders by organizing workers for efficient cooperation, rather than curtailing inefficiency by searching for exceptional leaders someone else has trained. Moreover, the fundamental principles of scientific management apply to all kinds of human activities, from the simplest individual acts to the most elaborate cooperative efforts of mighty corporations

Taylor: More Respectful to Workers than I Expected Let's face it; if you're thinking about buying The Principles of Scientific Management, you don't need a review. You're either a scholar who's already quite familiar with Taylor and know why you want to read the original, or you're a student who's been assigned to read the book. I suppose an historian could. "A must-read business book" according to David B McDonald. I am neither a scholar nor a student required to read Taylor. Instead, I am an IT consultant and MBA who wanted to go back and fill in some of my literature gaps. I have read many books that refer to Taylor's Scientific Management in the context of time and motion studies, and outmoded commant-and-control m. "Hunting for productivity improvements" according to John Gibbs. "The most important object of both the workman and the management should be the training and development of each individual in the establishment, so that he can do (at his fastest pace and with the maximum of efficiency) the highest class of work for which his natural abilities fit him," according to Freder