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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper. 83 Copy quote. In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.
- "A Piece-Rate System," 1896
- Shop Management, 1903
- Principles of Scientific Management, 1911
- Testimony of Frederick W. Taylor... 1912
F.W. Taylor (1896). "A Piece-rate System" in: The adjustment of wages to efficiency: three papers on...The American Economic Association by the Macmillan Company. p. 89-129. 1. The differential rate system of piece-work consists briefly in offering two different rates for the same job: a high price per piece, in case the work is finished in the sho...
F.W. Taylor (1903) "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers, " in: Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers24: 1337-1480. 1. The art of management has been defined, "As knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way." No concise defi...
F.W. Taylor, 1911. Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London, Harper & brothers. 1. In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under sy...
Frederick W. Taylor. Testimony of Frederick W. Taylor at Hearings Before Special Committee of the House of Representatives, January, 1912,Reprinted in Full by Taylor Society, 1926. 1. What I want to try to prove to you and make clear to you is that the principles of scientific management when properly applied, and when a sufficient amount of time h...
The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor. 841 ratings, 3.66 average rating, 92 reviews. Open Preview. The Principles of Scientific Management Quotes Showing 1-7 of 7. “In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”.
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Quotes by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915). 17 sourced quotes. Categories: 1910s deaths, Americans, Business theorists, Mechanical engineers.
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If Peter Drucker is the guru’s guru, then Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915) was the guru’s guru’s guru. The American engineer, management theorist, tennis ace and serial patent filer, was, Drucker wrote, “the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic study and observation.”
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This is probably the most well-known principle of Scientific management. At a lecture he gave in 1906, Taylor explained: In our scheme, we do not ask for the initiative of our men. We do not want any initiative. All we want of them is to obey the orders we give them, do what we say, and do it quick (Kanigel: 169).
