12 pages w/ bibliography on the experiments of Taylor -
Lenoir Community College
Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Business Management
David Mercer
Tuesday, February 04, 1997
CONTENTS
I. Introduction 6
II. The Younger Years 7
III Midvale Steel Company n
IV Inventions n
V. Pig-Iron Handling Experiments n
VI. Shoveling Experiments .....................................................n
VII. Conclusion .....................................................................n
APPENDIX n
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY n
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Illustration 1 n
2. Illustration 2 n
3. Illustration 3 n
4. Illustration 4 n
5. Illustration 5 n
LIST OF TABLES
1. Differential Piece Rate Wages n
2. Table 2 n
3. Table 3 n
4. Table 4 n
5. Table 5 n
Introduction
This paper is in response to the assignment for a paper and short speech concerning a
person with relevant contributions to the world of management. Frederick Taylor is
affectionately referred to as the "Father of Scientific Management." The modern systems of
manufacturing and management would not be the examples of efficiency that they are today,
without the work of Taylor.
English: Frederick Winslow Taylor lived from 1856 ...
Frederick Winslow Taylor
English: Slide rule created by Carl G. Barth, a co...Frederick Taylor was instrumental in bringing industry out of the
dark ages by beginning to revolutionize the way work was approached. Taylor was able to
increase wages, productivity and reduce per piece costs at the same time. Taylor's work was
eventually adopted in a wide array of applications. Taylor's ideas had a significant influence on
the industrial life of all modernized countries. Even Lenin went as far as to publish an article in
Pravda , "Raising the Productivity of Labour," based on the writings of Taylor. Thus Taylor
changed the way the world conducted business. Taylor's work was an extension of technology.
It was a marriage of human work and technology. His Priniciples of Scientifiic Management
was conceived to be free of value judgement.
The Younger Years
Frederick W. Taylor was born...