Frederick Winslow Taylor

Esteban Sanchez Rodriguez A1167693 Work Study and Design G01 Homework1 Period 1 January 16, 2015 Work Study Essay F.W. Taylor Frederick Winslow Taylor was born at Germantown, Philadelphia, on March 20, 1856, and was graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1883. Taylor was a mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. Taylor is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants and director of a famous firm. In Peter Drucker's description, Taylor's scientific management consisted of four principles: 1. Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks. 2. Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than passively leaving them to train themselves. 3. Provide "Detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task" (Montgomery 1997: 250). 4. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks. Taylor thought that by analyzing work, the "One Best Way" to do it would be found. He is most remembered for developing the stopwatch time study, which combined with Frank

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TAYLOR MOTION

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Esteban Sanchez Rodriguez

A1167693

Work Study and Design G01

Homework1 Period 1

January 16, 2015

Work Study EssayF.W. Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor was born at Germantown, Philadelphia, on March 20, 1856, and was graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1883.

Taylor was a mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. Taylor is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants and director of a famous firm. In Peter Drucker's description,

Taylor's scientific management consisted of four principles:

1. Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks.

2. Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than passively leaving them to train themselves.

3. Provide "Detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task" (Montgomery 1997: 250).

4. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.

Taylor thought that by analyzing work, the "One Best Way" to do it would be found. He is most remembered for developing the stopwatch time study, which combined with Frank Gilbreth's motion study methods later becomes the field of time and motion study, that is a business efficiency technique and consist in direct and continuous observation of a task, using a timekeeping device to record the time take to do a specific operation.

Among Taylor's contributions to the technical journals were "A Piece-Rate System", an exposition of the principles on which his system of management was subsequently based, and "Shop Management, which was translated and published in almost every country of Europe. In 1911 he published The Principles of Scientific Management, and submitted to Congress a report entitled " 'Taylor System' of Shop Management".

Biblography: Anonymous. (2014). Frederick Winslow Taylor. 15/01/2015, de Miami university Sitio web: http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/taylor.htm