In 1895, Gilbress registered his own construction contracting company in Boston. Thanks to the protection of patent right of technical invention and many improvements in business management, Gilbreth's company is doing very well. Later, it gradually expanded from the construction contracting industry to the construction consulting industry, with offices in new york, USA and London, England. He wrote books based on his rich experience, and in the process, Gilbreth became interested in general management science. In 191, Gilbreth was very interested in the freight case of the Eastern Railway and joined the group advocating scientific management.
in p>1912, under the influence of Taylor and Gant, Gilbreth gave up his lucrative construction business and turned to the research of "management engineering". He was very accomplished in the operation methods of manual labor. His wife Lillian made a great contribution to his research. During the five years from 1912 to 1917, he took Bart Company of New England in Providence, USA as his experimental base. Because of his excellent research results, he soon won the honor of management expert. On June 14, 1924, Gilbreth, who was preparing to attend the Prague International Management Conference, died suddenly because of a heart attack. He was only 56 years old.
Lillian gilbraith (1878-1972), a psychologist and management scientist, was the wife of Frank Gilbreth and the first woman in the United States to receive a doctorate in psychology, and was called the "first lady of management". Originally named Lillian Gilbreth, he was born in Oakland, California, USA, and graduated from the English Department of the University of California. In order to cooperate with her husband in research, she changed to psychology. In 1912, Lillian finished her doctoral thesis, but the University of California could not grant her a doctorate and insisted that she go back to school for another year. Lillian Gilbreth is a very remarkable woman. After the busy housework of raising 12 children, she devoted herself to the research of management psychology and wrote the book Management Psychology. Later, in 1915, he received a doctorate from Brown University. When Frank Gilbreth died in 1924, she took over her husband's job and made herself a role model in industry. Among the 12 women who were selected as "capable of exercising the power of the President of the United States" in 1938, Lillian Gilbreth was on the list. In 1944, California Monthly commented: "Lillian is a genius."