...Kathleen Hughes Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine descriptions of Taylor or scientific management as utopian, including the context, intent and contradictions in the claims made. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a review of texts describing Taylor or his work...

.... Design/methodology/approach This study engages with primary materials not previously present in the management history literature and secondary works generated by researchers in disciplines commonly ignored by management scholars. Findings This study contests the claim that the scientific managers...

...Sigmund A. Wagner-Tsukamoto Purpose This paper aims to offer a new history of management by tracing a religious dimension of scientific management. The thesis is that the good was foundational for bringing scientific management to success in Taylor’s native Quaker Philadelphia in the 1880s...

... to engagement with the researched phenomenon and how it was approached. Makadok et al. (2018) say that theory advancements rarely occur through radical paradigm shifts in Kuhnian terms but through small increases in already established knowledge. Courcelle-Seneuil Scientific management General...

... managerial thinkers, López reconceptualized scientific management with a critical discussion of classical economic theory using sociology and psychology to present a unique conception of work, enterprise and efficiency as a public service that gives sense to individual and social realization to face...

... 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Management theory Scientific management Science Postmodernism Positivism Simon joined what would become the Carnegie School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) in 1949. Staffed with social scientists, economists...

...Hindy Lauer Schachter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to add information on which voices contributed to the scientific management narrative from Frederick Taylor’s 1915 death to the early 1930s with a focus on the role of labor union representatives. The strategy is to analyze the role...

...Diana Kelly Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence of pro-worker orientation and acceptance of socialist idealism in scientific management, with particular focus on Walter Polakov. Design/methodology/approach A range of original texts have been examined to identify the ideas expressed...

... per cent of eligible students registered for it, a percentage that the school hoped it could raise (Farquhar, 1926). In 1921-22, the syllabus for that course included material on time study, plant equipment and layout, standardization, principles of scientific management, control, stores, maintenance...

...Kyle Bruce Purpose This paper explores the “proto-Keynesian” ideas of progressive members of the scientific management community with regard to micro- and macroeconomic planning/management. Design/methodology/approach Based on a systematic exegetical analysis of articles published in a largely...

... in a variety of industries and firms using batch, continuous processing and/or sub-assembly lines in mass production. Traditional scientific management techniques were expanded for general management, such as financial requirement through budgetary control. Clark and his consulting firm were responsible...

...Daniel A. Wren; Regina A. Greenwood; Julia Teahen; Arthur G. Bedeian Purpose – This paper aims to highlight myriad accomplishments of C. Bertrand Thompson, who is perhaps most well known as a scientific-management bibliographer and a Taylor disciple, in the belief that his contributions...

..., whose methods and findings were similar to those of Frederick Taylor and are contemporary, and, in some cases, precede those of the Father of Scientific Management. The methodology used in this study is a review of the original work of Adamiecki and Taylor to find the true meaning and purpose behind...

.... His view is, perhaps, most poignantly captured in his statement in an interview that there can be no dispute about quantity of work or level of pay once scientific management had been implemented because such a dispute would be the equivalent of, “bargaining about the time and place of the rising...

...Mikhail Grachev; Boris Rakitsky Purpose – The purpose of the article is to historically position F. Taylor's scientific management in a broad socio-economic landscape, arguing that Taylorism was predetermined by the distinctive industrial type of economic growth and shaped by a political...

...Linzi J. Kemp Purpose The aim of the paper is to evidence the development of scientific management through the lens of postmodernism. Design/methodology/approach The four principles of scientific management are deconstructed through a postmodern lens. Current management practices are analyzed...

...Lee D. Parker; Philip Ritson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse and critique Lyndall Urwick's long‐term advocacy of scientific management and its influence upon management thought. Design/methodology/approach An analysis and critique of Urwick's published writings across 60 years...

... evidence of the Wentworth‐Taylor link, it probes into the nature and the scope of the influence of the “Old Bull” of Exeter on the father of scientific management. Findings Taylor did not conceive of time study on his own but acquired it early in his life via traceable socialization influences, many...

..., 1976 ; Locke, 1982). Drucker (1954) labeled Taylor's scientific management the most lasting American contribution to Western thought since the eighteenth‐century Federalist papers. What's of interest in the contemporary debates is that Taylor still incites contention so many years after his...

...Aditya Simha; David J. Lemak Purpose Frederick Taylor, the “Father of Scientific Management” is recognized as a pioneer in the field of management. However, many unfair criticisms have been leveled at him starting with the infamous Congressional hearings of 1911. Many scholars of management...