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Time and Motion Study: Beyond the Taylor — Gilbreth Controversy

  • Kijne H
Springer US, (1996), 63-92
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-1421-9_3
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Abstract

Frederick Winslow Taylor introduced stop watch time study in 1881 in the MIDvale Steel Company in Philadelphia (1). The IDea was not his, but came from one of his instructors at the Phillips — Exeter academy in Massachusetts, the mathematician (Bull) Wentworth,...

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Kijne, H. J. (1996). Time and Motion Study: Beyond the Taylor — Gilbreth Controversy. In Scientific Management (pp. 63–92). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1421-9_3

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