Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915)

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) was a US engineer whose time studies and examination of workers' behaviour had a lasting impact on the production processes of American firms. He is seen as the founder of so-called Scientific Management, which is also called Taylorism.

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