Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), a famous American management scientist and economist, is known as the "Father of Scientific Management" by later generations. As "Principles of Scientific Management".
Born on March 20, 1856, in Germantown, Philadelphia, USA, into a wealthy lawyer family. After receiving secondary education, enter a junior college to study.
In 1874, he was admitted to the law department of Harvard University, but dropped out due to eye disease.
In 1875, he entered a factory in Philadelphia as a moldmaker and machinist apprentice.
In 1878, he transferred to work at Meadville Steel Company in Philadelphia. Starting from a mechanical worker, he has successively served as workshop manager, team leader, foreman, technician, chief engineer, etc.
In 1881, Taylor began to conduct research on labor hours and working methods at the company, conducting the famous "Metal Cutting Experiment". From then on, I became associated with management and worked hard for it all my life.
In 1883, Taylor obtained a degree in mechanical engineering through part-time study.
In 1890, he left Meadville and became the general manager of an investment company in Philadelphia.
Resigned in 1893 and independently engaged in factory management consulting work. Since then, he has conducted experiments in scientific management in many companies. Cost accounting was created at Steele; ball bearing inspection procedures were reformed at Simmond Rolling Mills.
In 1895, "Piece Rate System" was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
In 1898, at the instigation of Wharton, the major shareholder of Bethlehem Steel Company, he conducted the famous "Pig Iron Moving Test" and "Shovel Test" as a company consultant.
In 1898, together with Mr. White, he invented high-speed tool steel and obtained a technology patent.
Since 1901, he has only been engaged in unpaid management consulting, writing and speaking, and devoted himself to promoting scientific management.
In 1903, he published "Factory Management" and preached "Shop Management" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
In 1906, "On Metal Cutting Technology" was published. In the same year, he was elected president of the prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers and received an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1909, he published the article "Why Manufacturers Don't Like College Students" and also gave a lecture "On the Way to Success" at the University of Illinois. In the winter of 1909, Taylor was invited by Guy, the dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration, to teach scientific management at Harvard, which continued until his death.
In 1910, the Intercontinental Trade Commission held a hearing on Eastern Railroad Company freight rates, and scientific management began to spread widely.
In 1911, he published "The Gospel of Efficiency" and in the same year officially published "Principles of Scientific Management". [3]