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The Principles of Scientific Management

(1911)

by Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E., Sc.D.

Scanned by Eric Eldred (eldred@tiac.net)



Introduction

Chapter I: Fundamentals of Scientific Management

Chapter II: The Principles of Scientific Management



INTRODUCTION

President Roosevelt, in his address to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question of national efficiency."

The whole country at once recognized the importance of conserving our material resources and a large movement has been started which will be effective in accomplishing this object. As yet, however, we have but vaguely appreciated the importance of "the larger question of increasing our national efficiency."

We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into the sea; and the end of our coal and our iron is in sight. But our......

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