Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Gift to the World?
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 morali...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Villain, victim or visionary?: The insights and flaws in F. W. Taylor’s ideas
- 2 Machine-shop engineering roots of Taylorism: The efficiency of machine-tools and machinists, 1865–1884.
- 3 Time and motion study: Beyond the Taylor — Gilbreth controversy
- 4 Standards and the development of an internal labor market
- 5 The movement for scientific management in Europe between the wars
- 6 Scientific management in Central Eastern Europe — Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland
- 7 Scientific management and Japanese management, 1910–1945