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 (1856-1915) was a Quaker whose tombstone in Pennsylvania bears the inscription “The Father of Scientific Management”. He was born to a wealthy family in Philadelphia ...

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 ...

To seek an answer, reach back to Fredrick Winslow Taylor and the theory of "scientific management" he developed in the first decades of the 20th century. What we do today was set in motion long ago.

The man behind this question was Frederick Winslow Taylor, the author of The Principles of Scientific Management and, by most accounts, the founding father of the whole management business.

The system’s most vocal proponent, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor, had just published his magnum opus, The Principles of Scientific Management. Taylor’s work would become an ...