The Principles of Scientific ManagementFrederick Winslow Taylor
The Principles of Scientific Management
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Essays
Book language: English
109 pages
The Principles of Scientific Management is a foundational collection of essays by Frederick Winslow Taylor, first published in 1911. It argues that industrial efficiency can be improved through systematic study of work processes, rather than rule-of-thumb methods. Listeners interested in the history of management and labor will find it a clear and influential text.
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Opening of the book
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The Principles of Scientific Management
by
FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR, M.E., Sc.D.
1911
INTRODUCTION
President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White
House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary 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
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