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Scientific management is one best way for a job to be done and to improve worker efficiency (Robbins, 1994, p.32). Frederick Winslow Taylor was known to have applied the scientific management because he was very concern about time, there are 2 other people that helped Taylor a lot of formalizing scientific management, they were: Frank & Lillian Gilbreth and Henry Gantt.

1.0 Frederick Winslow Taylor

1.1 Start of Scientific Management
F.W. Taylor began scientific management during the second industry revolution that started in 1850, which were the development of ships and railways that had the power from steam and also the development of electrical power generation. Taylor was born in 1856, he worked his way up from a labourer to a chief engineer for over 6 years (Bartol, Margaret, Graham, and Martin, 2005, p.34), he then he saw managers were struggled to control workers to work more efficient and they purposely work below capacity that could increase productivity, which is......

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