Frederick Winslow Taylor's ideas for maximizing industrial output still have currency today, more than a hundred years after he propounded them. He's worth a fresh look.

In the 1890s, Fredrick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), regarded by many as the world’s first efficiency expert, arrived at Bethlehem Iron (not yet officially Steel) at the request of company management ...

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.

Frederick Winslow Taylor, an American mechanical engineer, published his "Principles of Scientific Management" over 100 years ago in which he laid out Industrial-era organization and decision ...