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Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Scientific Management and its contribution to Organizational Theory

Frederick Winslow Taylor The Man Behind the Theory

Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. A management consultant in his later years, he is sometimes called "the father of scientific management." Taylor was born on March 20, 1856 to a wealthy Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. (WIKIPEDIA) His father, a Princeton graduate and lawyer, made enough money from mortgages and did not have to keep a regular job. His mother was a spirited abolitionist and feminist who was said to have run an Underground Railroad station for runaway slaves. (Papesh)
Taylor was a compulsive adolescent and was always counting and measuring things to figure a better way of doing something. At age twelve, he invented a harness for himself to keep from sleeping on his back, hoping to avoid the nightmares he was......

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