Scientific management
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Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management. Scientific management is sometimes known as Taylorism after its founder, Frederick Winslow Taylor.
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See also
- American system of manufacturing
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Hawthorne effect
- Industrial engineering
- Henry Louis Le Châtelier (1850–1936), industrial chemist and author of French language texts on Taylorism; for example Le Systeme Taylor<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Management science
- Modern Times (film)
- The Pajama Game
- Pandora's Box
- Hans Renold (1852–1943), credited with introducing Taylorism to Britain
- Stakhanovism
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Henry R. Towne (1844–1924), ASME President and author of the seminal The Engineer as An Economist (1886)
- Words per minute
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