Named after F.W.Taylor (1856-1915). The division of work into measurable parts, such that new standards of work performance could he defined, coupled with a willingness by management and workers to achieve these. It fell into disrepute when it was used to exploit workers in the early twentieth century. Taylor always denied that this had been his intention.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915) made time and motion studies on factory workers what allowed the further division of work in small steps which can be carried out by unskilled workers. That was the basis for piecework targets and the continuous increase of that amount. (According to unconfirmed rumours he was beaten to death by burned-out assembly line-workers using a clock.)
the regime of work control developed by F. W. Taylor. Taylorism, or Scientific Management, was the first major industrial system to systematically rationalize and control the work process, by separating skills from the shop floor and fragmenting jobs.
system of scientific management outlined by F.W. Taylor. (see Scientific Management)
An approach to maximizing the efficiency of production developed by the industrial engineer Frederick Taylor in the first decade of the twentieth century. Taylor made careful analysis of the ways industries organized their human labor and machines and created systems to reduce the waste of time and energy. By simplifying the tasks of any individual laborer, Taylor's "scientific management" not only maximized the efficiency of production, but also made the laborer's job more repetitive and tedious. In a time when immigrants comprised a significant portion of the work force, such simple tasks allowed businesses to employ unskilled workers and pay them very little. This change in manual labor practice further alienated workers from meaningful work and created environments that made workers quite like the machines they operated.