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What is another word for scientific management?

Pronunciation: [sa͡ɪ͡əntˈɪfɪk mˈanɪd͡ʒmənt] (IPA)

Scientific management is a concept that involves applying scientific methods and principles to the management of organizations. Synonyms for this term include Taylorism, which is named after Frederick Winslow Taylor, who pioneered this approach. Other synonyms for scientific management include industrial engineering, rationalization, work simplification, and time and motion study. All of these terms are related to the idea of optimizing work processes in order to increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability. While scientific management has been criticized for its mechanistic approach to human labor, it remains an important concept in the history of management theory and continues to influence managerial practices today.
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  • A number of engineers became so-called disciples of Frederick W. Taylor, even though he had passed on to his reward in 1915. A considerable number of engineers took up the so-called scientific management of Frederick Taylor and further embroidered it and publicized themselves as efficiency engineers and management consultants. Henry L. Gantt had been Taylor's assistant at the Midvale Steel and the Bethlehem Steel Company. Gant, Morris L. Cook, Leffingwell, Emerson, H. K. Hathaway, Frank B. Gilbreth, Harlow S. Person and C.G. Barth were among the many prominent advocates of Taylor's efficiency system with some variations.
    Howard Scott
  • We never had any use for Taylor or any of the efficiency or scientific management crowd. They never realized that human toil was the last thing in the world you had to be efficient about; the only way to be really efficient is to eliminate it entirely, and this would have been heresy to any of the Taylor, Gant, Barth, Cook efficiency crowd.
    Howard Scott
  • When Taylor began his efforts at the Midvale Steel Company in the 1880s, several members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers were likewise interested in labor management. Industrial capitalism was running up against renewed resistance from the growing ranks of labor, still committed to a sense of work integrity and craftsmanship. Task management, or scientific management as it came to be called, began to take shape in the eighties as the way to break the worker's threatening resistance. The heart of this approach is the systematic reduction of work into discrete, routinized tasks, totally separated from any policy decisions about the job. ... For capitalism to be firmly in control, it must monopolize information and techniques as surely as it controls the rest of the means of production. The worker must be permitted only to perform certain specific narrow tasks as planned by management.
    John Zerzan

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