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It seems, at first glance, for an obvious step to improve
industrial productivity: one should simply watch workers at work in
order to learn how they actually do their jobs. However, this
highly influential book, a must-read for anyone seeking to
understand modern management practices, puts lie to such
misconceptions. It disproves that making industrial processes more
efficient increases unemployment and that shorter workdays decrease
productivity. And it lays the foundations for the discipline of
management to be studied, taught, and applied with methodical
precision.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.
President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White
House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our
national resources is only prelimi-nary to the larger question of
national efficiency." The whole country at once recognized the
importance of conserving our material resources and a large
movement has been started which will be effective in accomplishing
this object. As yet, however, we have but vaguely appreciated the
importance of "the larger question of increasing our national
efficiency." We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers
going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into the sea; and
the end of our coal and our iron is in sight. But our larger wastes
of human effort, which go on every day through such of our acts as
are blundering, ill-directed, or inefficient, and which Mr.
Roosevelt refers to as a, lack of "national efficiency," are less
visible, less tangible, and are but vaguely appreciated.
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, he
maintained that 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.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The Principles of Scientific Management, by Frederick Winslow
Taylor - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - President
Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White House,
prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national
resources is only prelimi-nary to the larger question of national
efficiency." The whole country at once recognized the importance of
conserving our material resources and a large movement has been
started which will be effective in accomplishing this object. As
yet, however, we have but vaguely appreciated the importance of
"the larger question of increasing our national efficiency." We can
see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste, our
soil being carried by floods into the sea; and the end of our coal
and our iron is in sight. But our larger wastes of human effort,
which go on every day through such of our acts as are blundering,
ill-directed, or inefficient, and which Mr. Roosevelt refers to as
a, lack of "national efficiency," are less visible, less tangible,
and are but vaguely appreciated.
The basis of modern organization and decision theory, this influential essay has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique for more than 80 years. The author discusses eliminating inefficiency through a system based on principles applicable to individual and collective activities. A ground-breaking, and still-inspiring work.
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - President Roosevelt in his address
to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that
"The conservation of our national resources is only prelimi-nary to
the larger question of national efficiency." The whole country at
once recognized the importance of conserving our material resources
and a large movement has been started which will be effective in
accomplishing this object. As yet, however, we have but vaguely
appreciated the importance of "the larger question of increasing
our national efficiency." We can see our forests vanishing, our
water-powers going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into
the sea; and the end of our coal and our iron is in sight. But our
larger wastes of human effort, which go on every day through such
of our acts as are blundering, ill-directed, or inefficient, and
which Mr. Roosevelt refers to as a, lack of "national efficiency,"
are less visible, less tangible, and are but vaguely appreciated.
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