Scientific management (Taylorism)
Organización científica del trabajo (taylorismo)
- Date
- 1880s–1911 · confidence medium
- Place
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Credited to
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (Midvale Steel, Bethlehem Steel); Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (motion study)
- People
- 👤 Frederick Winslow Taylor1856–1915👤 Lillian Moller Gilbreth1878–1972
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Method of breaking each task down into timed movements to fix the 'one best way' of performing it. It separated the conception of work from its execution.
The Principles of Scientific Management was published in 1911.
What it led to
- Assembly line and modern industrial management
- Business schools and management consulting
- Soviet planning (Lenin admired Taylorism) and worker resistance
Built on
- Interchangeable parts1785-1801
- Stopwatch
Made possible
- Moving assembly line1913
- Fordism1914
- Ergonomics
- Statistical quality control