Management · In English · 1903
Shop Management
Taylor's practical playbook for running a factory floor: planning, wages and control. It shows where later management methods came from.
12 chapters · about 4 h of reading
Opening the book
How the book begins
Through his business in changing the methods of shop management, the writer has been brought into intimate contact over a period of years with the organization of manufacturing and industrial establishments, covering a large variety and range of product, and employing workmen in many of the leading trades.
(a) What may be called the great unevenness, or lack of uniformity shown, even in our best run works, in the development of the several elements, which together constitute what is called the management.
Although the day of trusts is here, still practically each of the component companies of the trusts was developed and built up largely through the energies and especial ability of some one or two men who were the master spirits in directing its growth. As a rule, this leader rose from a more or less humble position in one of the departments, say in the commercial or the manufacturing department, until he became the head of his particular section. Having shown especial ability in his line, he was for that reason made manager of the whole establishment.
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About this edition
Public domain: the author died in 1915, more than seventy years ago, and the book was first published in 1903. It is free to read, copy and share in the EU, Russia and the United States.
We removed the source's wrapper, rejoined the lines and split the book into chapters. The words are the author's.