FREDERICK W. TAYLOR

Frederick W. TAYLOR
Frederick Winslow Taylor who produced scientific management in business is American industrial engineer. He was born in Pennsylvania.
Taylor first learned to use time as a management tool while attending Philips Exeter Academy. After he completed an engineering degree at the Stevens Institute of Technology he started working at the Midvale Steel Company. Taylor developed detailed systems which are redefining the jobs and explaining the jobs’ descriptions to the workers and dividing the jobs into separate parts to process more output than before. in order to obtain maximum productivity from both workers and machines in the company. These systems trusted in time and motion studies. In 1890, Taylor became general manager of the Manufacturing Investment Company and created the new branch of management consultant. In 1898 while at Bethlehem, he became discoverer of the Taylor-White process, which is a method of tempering steel. His management methods were published in The Principles of Scientific Management. Taylor's scientific management consisted of four principles:
A. Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks.B. Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than passively leaving them to train themselves.C. Provide "Detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task" (Montgomery 1997: 250).D. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.