Slide 2: Frederick Winslow Taylor – A Brief Introduction
- Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer.
- Known as the father of Scientific Management, he was a proponent of efficiency.
- His interest in efficiency led him to experiment
- with various motions that are useful for laying bricks
- with various elements of jobs to find out an optimal way of completing a job.
Slide 3: Principles of Scientific Management
- 'The Principles of Scientific Management' published in 1911 best described his belief that simplification and optimization of jobs would increase productivity and work efficiency to a great degree.
- His publication was meant to touch upon three points:
Slide 4: Principles of Scientific Managementcontd.
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