LDRLB

MAY 5, 2010

This post is part of a series called “Evidence-Based Management.” Scientific management (or Taylorism) is the first major theory of management. While he served as a foreman at Midvale Steele Company in 1875, Taylor was seeking a way for workers to increase their efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The earliest business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

In the past, the effects of technological change were very much shaped by business leaders’ embrace of scientific management with its emphasis on efficient uniformity, and by simplifying assumptions about the behavior of economic man and the efficiency of bureaucratic organizations.

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Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The early business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10