F W Taylor

Author : Frederick Winslow Taylor
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616409869

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The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor Pdf

It seems, at first glance, like an obvious step to take to improve industrial productivity: one should simply watch workers at work in order to learn how they actually do their jobs. But American engineer FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR (1856-1915) broke new ground with this 1919 essay, in which he applied the rigors of scientific observation to such labor as shoveling and bricklayer in order to streamline their work... and bring a sense of logic and practicality to the management of that work. This highly influential book, must-reading for anyone seeking to understand modern management practices, puts lie to such misconceptions that making industrial processes more efficient increases unemployment and that shorter workdays decrease productivity. And it laid the foundations for the discipline of management to be studied, taught, and applied with methodical precision.

Author : John Cunningham Wood,Michael C. Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415248213

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F. W. Taylor by John Cunningham Wood,Michael C. Wood Pdf

Following the volumes on Henri Fayol, this next mini-set in the series focuses on F.W. Taylor, the initiator of "scientific management". Taylor set out to transform what had previously been a crude art form in to a firm body of knowledge.

Author : Frederick Winslow Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134466245

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Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor Pdf

This volume comprises three works originally published separately as Shop Management (1903), The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) and Testimony Before the Special House Committee (1912). Taylor aimed at reducing conflict between managers and workers by using scientific thought to develop new principles and mechanisms of management. In contrast to ideas prevalent at the time, Taylor maintained that the workers' output could be increased by standardizing tasks and working conditions, with high pay for success and loss in case of failure. Scientific Management controversially suggested that almost every act of the worker would have to be preceded by one or more preparatory acts of management, thus separating the planning of an act from its execution.

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262612062

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The One Best Way by Robert Kanigel Pdf

The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert."

Author : Frederick Winslow Taylor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732627059

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Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Frederick Winslow Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Factory management
ISBN : UOM:39015046810142

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Testimony of Frederick W. Taylor at Hearings Before Special Committee of the House of Representatives, January, 1912 by Frederick Winslow Taylor Pdf

Author : J.-C. Spender,Hugo Kijne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461314219

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Scientific Management by J.-C. Spender,Hugo Kijne Pdf

Many of those interested in the effect of industry on contemporary life are also interested in Frederick W. Taylor and his work. He was a true character, the stuff of legends, enormously influential and quintessentially American, an award-winning sportsman and mechanical tinkerer as well as a moralizing rationalist and early scientist. But he was also intensely modem, one of the long line of American social reformers exploiting the freedom to present an idiosyncratic version of American democracy, in this case one that began in the industrial workplace. Such as wide net captures an amazing range of critics and questioners as well as supporters. So much is puzzling, ambiguous, unexplained and even secret about Taylor's life that there will be plenty of scope for re-examination, re-interpretation and disagreement for years to come. But there is a surge of fresh interest and new analyses have appeared in recent years (e. g. Wrege, C. & R. Greenwood, 1991 "F. W. Taylor: The father of scientific management", Business One Irwin, Homewood IL; Nelson, D. (Ed. ) 1992 "The mental revolution: Scientific management since Taylor", Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH). We know other books are under way. As is customary, we offer this additional volume respectfully to our academic and managerial colleagues, from whatever point of view they approach scientific management, in the hope that it will provoke fresh thought and discussion. But we have a more aggressive agenda.

Author : Charles D. Wrege,Ronald G. Greenwood
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030168152

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Frederick W. Taylor, the Father of Scientific Management by Charles D. Wrege,Ronald G. Greenwood Pdf

In this carefully researched look at Taylor, the much-misunderstood father of scientific management, the authors present a biography/history of both the man and his ideas. They show that Taylor's ideas have a place in the Information Age and that most of the negative ideas we have about scientific management are not grounded in what Taylor actually did. ISBN 1-55623-501-1: $24.95.

Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015001792764

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Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management by Daniel Nelson Pdf

The author discusses the influence of Taylor in transforming the philosophy of American industry from the "factory system" to "scientific management." Nelson believes that though Taylor is best remembered for techniques such as time study, he was a reformer whose ideas were more readily adopted after his death, following World War I.

Author : Augustine Sedgewick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698167933

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Coffeeland by Augustine Sedgewick Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history—a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

Author : Jos C. N. Raadschelders,Brian R. Fry
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478649748

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Mastering Public Administration by Jos C. N. Raadschelders,Brian R. Fry Pdf

Raadschelders and Fry provide a singular investigation into the influence of 10 scholars on contemporary public administration as well as how significant their work continues to be on contemporary research. In a field that is eclectic and pragmatic, it is only fitting that the diversity of the following scholars reflects the diversity of the field of public administration: Max Weber, Frederick W. Taylor, Luther H. Gulick, Mary Parker Follett, Elton Mayo, Chester Barnard, Herbert A. Simon, Charles E. Lindblom, Elinor Ostrom, and Dwight Waldo. The impacts of their personal life experiences on scholarly thought and their ideas about science and a science of public administration are used to enhance an examination of their ideas, concepts, and theories. The writings of such a wide-ranging group of scholars are also connected by a recognition of the growth and organizational independence of the field of public administration. For the Fourth Edition, a new perspective has been included: a review of Elinor Ostrom’s work provides valuable new material on organization and decision making that is applicable in many disciplines and across many fields. In addition, substantive updates to the scholarship and analysis found in each of the chapters in the book encourage new avenues for questions, insight, and exploration in the field of public administration.

Author : Michael C. Wood,John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415309476

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Frank and Lillian Gilbreth by Michael C. Wood,John Cunningham Wood Pdf

Author : Frank Barkley Copley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Industrial engineers
ISBN : CHI:60707300

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Frederick W. Taylor, Father of Scientific Management by Frank Barkley Copley Pdf

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) lived at a time when few scientific principles existed in the practice of management. He sought to bring rationalization and standardization to the shop floor. By careful scientific observation through time-and-motion studies, jobs were broken down into their simplest components. Work methods of the most skilled workers were analyzed to ascertain the optimal way to perform a job. Workers were then carefully selected, trained and given the proper tools to do the job. Based on scientific observation, a fair day's production standard for each task was set and piece rate system put in place to maximize the incentive value for workers.

Author : Frederick Winslow Taylor
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597404942

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Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor Pdf

Author : Frederick Winslow Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1179522893

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Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor Pdf