scientific management
Definition
Early 20th century school of management thought concerned primarily with the physical efficiency of an individual worker. Based on the work of the US engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) who in his 1911 book 'Principles Of Scientific Management' laid down the fundamental principles of large-scale manufacturing through assembly-line factories. It emphasizes rationalization and standardization of work through division of labor, time and motion studies, work measurement, and piece-rate wages. See also Taylorism.
scientific management is in the Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership and Information & Knowledge Management subjects.
scientific management appears in the definitions of the following terms: Gantt chart and Taylorism
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