News

Photos (Corbis), Illustration by Gluekit. Around the turn of the 20th century, an American engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor had a nutty idea about increasing industrial productivity.
The basic assumption of hierarchical bureaucracy, whether it is the management of Frederick Taylor’s pig iron worker in 1900 or the Cheesecake Factory in 2012, is that the managers know better ...
Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856-March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. Taylor’s passion was to improve the product while ...
Here's a brief history of how seating arrangements have reflected our changing attitudes toward work. 1Taylorism (ca. 1904) American engineer Frederick Taylor was obsessed with efficiency and ...
Scientific Management, sometimes called "Taylorism" after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient.If a garment factory worker could ...
Frederick Taylor introduced a systematic approach to improving industrial efficiency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on time and motion studies, work standardization and labor ...