Essay About Taylorism
Table of contents.
Introduction Of Taylor……………………..………..2
Development i. Discussion About The Taylorism……………………………………2 ii. Interesting Things About The Essay…………………………………………………………………………....3 iii. How The Topic Influenced me and why I Find It Significant………………………………………....3 iv. Weakness …………………………………………………………………….4
Conclusion………………………………………………….4
References………………………………………………...5
About “The Father of Scientific Management”: Fredrick W. Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor (was born in Germantown, Philadelphia [2]) was an American inventor and an engineer who is known as “The Father Of Scientific Management”. His system of the Industrial Management was the huge influence on the development of the industries of many countries around the glob [1]. He innovated the industrial engineering massively. His specific research area was time study and motion study [3].
Taylor’s mother was his teacher for his early education. He completed his two years of schooling in two different European countries Germany and France. In year 1872 he joined Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire to study ‘Law’. Between years 1874 and 1878 he worked in the shops of the “Enterprise Hydraulic Works”, a pump manufacturing company in Philadelphia, there he learned the trades of mechanism. Then after in very next year he joined the Midvale Steel Company, at Philadelphia. Initially Taylor disappointed his parents by working in a metal products factory, first as a machinist and next as a foreman [4]. But; within next twelve years he raised his position and got promoted at the post of a chief engineer in the same company. Again after few years i.e. in 1883, he obtained his “Master of Engineering” degree at ‘Stevens Institute of Technology’, Hoboken, New Jersey. He invented many innovative things in machinery and manufacturing part during these years. The outstanding one he designed and constructed was the largest successful steam hammer ever built in the
Introduction Of Taylor……………………..………..2
Development i. Discussion About The Taylorism……………………………………2 ii. Interesting Things About The Essay…………………………………………………………………………....3 iii. How The Topic Influenced me and why I Find It Significant………………………………………....3 iv. Weakness …………………………………………………………………….4
Conclusion………………………………………………….4
References………………………………………………...5
About “The Father of Scientific Management”: Fredrick W. Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor (was born in Germantown, Philadelphia [2]) was an American inventor and an engineer who is known as “The Father Of Scientific Management”. His system of the Industrial Management was the huge influence on the development of the industries of many countries around the glob [1]. He innovated the industrial engineering massively. His specific research area was time study and motion study [3].
Taylor’s mother was his teacher for his early education. He completed his two years of schooling in two different European countries Germany and France. In year 1872 he joined Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire to study ‘Law’. Between years 1874 and 1878 he worked in the shops of the “Enterprise Hydraulic Works”, a pump manufacturing company in Philadelphia, there he learned the trades of mechanism. Then after in very next year he joined the Midvale Steel Company, at Philadelphia. Initially Taylor disappointed his parents by working in a metal products factory, first as a machinist and next as a foreman [4]. But; within next twelve years he raised his position and got promoted at the post of a chief engineer in the same company. Again after few years i.e. in 1883, he obtained his “Master of Engineering” degree at ‘Stevens Institute of Technology’, Hoboken, New Jersey. He invented many innovative things in machinery and manufacturing part during these years. The outstanding one he designed and constructed was the largest successful steam hammer ever built in the
References: 1. Frank Barkley Copley, Frederick W. Taylor (1923, reprinted 1969): Father of Scientific Management, 2 vol. 2 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2003. 3 4. The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, June 13, 1997 pp.-A17 5 6. Aitken, Hugh G. J. Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal: Scientific Management in Action, 1908–1915. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960. 7 9. Bratton, J. et al. (2007)“Work & Organizational Behaviour”. 2nd edition 2010. pp.-49-50.