: About Me

Fredrick Winslow Taylor is often called 'The Father of Scientific Management' because he sought to improve industrial efficiency.He was an intellectual leader whose ideas had a great impact in the Progressive Era. Taylor thought that by analyzing work, the "One Best Way" to do it would be found. He is most remembered for developing the time and motion study. He would break a job into its component parts and measure each to the hundredth of a minute. One of his most famous studies involved shovels. He noticed that workers used the same shovel for all materials. He determined that the most e...