Around the turn of the 20th century, an American engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor had a nutty idea about increasing industrial productivity. While most foremen simply yelled at laborers to ...

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was a Quaker whose tombstone in Pennsylvania bears the inscription “The Father of Scientific Management”. He was born to a wealthy family in Philadelphia ...

In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published "The Principles of Scientific Management," a short book that fostered a revolution in how American industry was structured. He wrote, "In the past the ...

Frederick Herzberg (1923 to 2000) and Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 to 1915) were towering figures who presented differing motivational theories in business. Both had a major impact on the way ...

The idea was first propounded by Frederick Winslow Taylor (see article), partly in response to a motivational problem, which at the time was called “soldiering”—the attempt among workers to ...