F. W. Taylor : Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, (4 Volume Set)

Title: F. W. Taylor : Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, (4 Volume Set)
Author: John C. Wood, Michael C. Wood
ISBN: 0415248248 / 9780415248242
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 1736
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2002
Availability: 45-60 days

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This collection focuses on Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), the initiator of 'scientific management'. Taylor set out to transform what had previously been a crude art form into a firm body of knowledge. His work is synonymous with breaking down tasks into the smallest detail, diagnosing the abilities of workers, and then fitting the two together to achieve greater efficiency. His methods have been associated with both massive increases in productivity and an obsession with control.

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Acknowledgments
Chronological Table of Reprinted articles and Chapters
Introduction
Annotated Bibliography

Volume I


Part I : Taylor : A Potted History
Chapter 1 : Frederick Winslow Taylor Revisited
Chapter 2 : Frederick W. Taylor : The Professional Management Pioneer
Chapter 3 : The Taylor Society
Chapter 4 : The Maligned F. W. Taylor : A Reply to His Many Critics
Chapter 5 : Cooke Creates a Classic : The Story Behind F. W. Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management
Chapter 6 : Morris Cooke, a Link Between Taylor and Public Administration
Chapter 7 : The Ideas of Frederick W. Taylor : An Evaluation
Chapter 8 : Disputing The Machines : Scientific Management and The Transformation of The Work Routine at The
Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga,1918-1930
Chapter 9 : E.W. Taylor's Lecture on Management, 4 June 1907 : An Introduction
Chapter 10 : Completing the Triangle : Taylorism and The Paradigms

Part II : Taylor's Influence
Chapter 11 : Veblen and The Engineers
Chapter 12 : Monopoly Capitalism and The Impact of Taylorism : Notes on Lenin, Gramsci, Braverman and Sohn-Rethel
Chapter 13 : "Islands of Conscious Power" : Louis D. Brandeis and The Modern Corporation
Chapter 14 : Luther Gulick on Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management
Chapter 15 : Taylorism, John R. Commons, and The Hoxie Report
Chapter 16 : Alfred Marshall and Scientific Management

Part III : Scientific Management and Management
Chapter 17 : The Principle of Planning and The Institution of Iaissez-Faire
Chapter 18 : Some Fundamental Contributions of Scientific Management : Developements in The Science of Administration
Chapter 19 : The Coming Rediscovery of Scientific Management : Frederick Winslow Taylor may Prove a More Useful
Prophet for Our Times than We Yet Recognize
Chapter 20 : Management and Theories of Organizations in The 1990s : Towards a Critical Radical Humanism?
Chapter 21 : Scientific Management : Technique or Cultural Ideology?
Chapter 22 : The Age of Eclecticism : Current Organizational Trends and The Evolution of Managerial Models
Chapter 23 : From Mechanical Engineering to Re-engineering : Would Taylor be Pleased With Modern Management?
Chapter 24 : Belated Recognition for Work Flow Entrepreneurs : A Case of Selective Perception and Amnesia in Management Thought

Volume II

Acknowledgements

Part IV : Scientific Management and Industry
Chapter 25 : Some Principles of Industrial Organization : The Case for and Against Scientific Management
Chapter 26 : How The Taylor System Works : II - The Program After The First Six Months
Chapter 27 : Scientific Management in Practice
Chapter 28 : Scientific Management in Practice : (I) The Boulton and Watt Foundry (1795)
Chapter 29 : Scientific Management in Practice : (II) Hans Renold, Ltd (1879-1913)
Chapter 30 : The Effort Bargain in Industrial Society
Chapter 31 : Productivity : Taylorism Revisited (Round Three)
Chapter 32 : Scientific Management, Systematic Management, and Labor, 1880-1915
Chapter 33 : Taylor's pig-tale : A Historical Analysis of Frederick W. Taylor's pig-iron Experiments
Chapter 34 : Origins of Midvale Steel (1866-1880) : Birthplace of Scientific Management
Chapter 35 : The Management Consultant and The Introduction of Scientific Management in Australian Industry
Chapter 36 : Scientific Management and The Workplace, 1920-1935
Chapter 37 : Physiological Science and Scientific Management in The Progressive Era : Frederic S. Lee and The Committee on Industrial Fatigue
Chapter 38 : Taylor to TQM : Part I : 100 years of Production Management
Chapter 39 : Taylor to TQM : Part II : A Century of Manufacturing Systems

Part V : Scientific Management and Business Operations
Chapter 40 : The Du Pont Experiments in Scientific Management : Efficiency and Safety, 1911-1919
Chapter 41 : The Early Application of Scientific Management by Cadbury
Chapter 42 : Cost Accounting During The Industrial Revolution : The Present State of Historical Knowledge
Chapter 43 : From Taylorism to Ms. Taylor : The Transformation of The Accounting Craft

Volume III

Acknowledgements

Part VI : Scientific Management and Education
Chapter 44 : Scientific Management and Teacher Education
Chapter 45 : The Scientific Movement : American Education and The Emergence of The Technological Society
Chapter 46 : Neo-Taylorism in Educational Administration?
Chapter 47 : From Managerialism to Communicative Competence : Control and Consensus in Educational Administration

Part VII : Scientific Management and Government
Chapter 48 : Scientific Management Theory as Political Ideology
Chapter 49 : Some Anomalies in The Deep History of U.S. Public Administration

Part VIII : Scientific Management and The Military
Chapter 50 : Scientific Management in the Army and Navy
Chapter 51 : The Pioneering Efforts of Major General William Crozier (1855-1942) in The Field of Management
Chapter 52 : Scientific Management and The American Planning Experience of WWI : The Case of The War Industries Board
Chapter 53 : The Mother of All Retreats : A Critical Analysis of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf : The Battlefield Strategy and Missed Opportunities in The Persian Gulf War

Part IX : Scientific Management and Society
Chapter 54 : Scientific Management
Chapter 55 : Scientific Management and Class Relations : A Dissenting View
Chapter 56 : An Early Account of Scientific Management as Applied to Women's Work with Comment by Frederick W.
Taylor
Chapter 57 : Gender and Scientific Management : Women and The History of The International Institute for Industrial
Relations, 1922-1946
Chapter 58 : Scientific Management and Social Respnsibility : Evidence from The Role of women in The New York
Bureau of Municipal Research

Part X : Scientific Management and Workers

Chapter 59 : Attitue of Labor Towards Scientific Management
Chapter 60 : The Response of Workers to Scientific Management
Chapter 61 : Scientific Management, Human Relations, and The Class Struggle : The Evolution of The Labor Process in The United States
Chapter 62 : Frederick Winslow Taylor and The Idea of Worker Participation : A Brief Against Easy Administrative Dichotomies
Chapter 63 : Taylorism and Hours of Work
Chapter 64 : Assaultive Violence in The U.S. Post Office
Chapter 65 : The Effect of Japanes Kaizen on Employee Motivation in U.S. Manufacturing

Volume IV


Acknowledgements

Part XI : The Scientific Management in Other Disciplines
Chapter 66 : The Scientific Management of Leisure Time
Chapter 67 : Organizational Patterns in Academic Libraries, 1876-1976
Chapter 68 : Strengthening Health Information Services
Chapter 69 : Medical Men and Scientific Management : A Forgotten Chapter in Management History
Chapter 70 : The Scientific Management Theory and Its Application to Library Personnel Administration : A Critical Review
Chapter 71 : Who put The "Management" in Records Management?
Chapter 72 : Scientific Management's Lost Aesthetic : Architecture, Organization, and The Taylorized Beauty of The Mechanical

Part XII : Scientific Management Around The World

Section A : Scientific Management in Britain
Chapter 73 : The Acceptance of F.W. Taylor by British Industry (1895-1915)
Chapter 74 : The Role of The British Government in The Spread of Scientific Management and Fordism in The Interwar Years
Chapter 75 : Early Experiments in British Scientific Management : The Health of Munitions Workers, Committe,
1915-1920
Chapter 76 : Consultancies, Institutions and The Diffusion of Taylorism in Britain, Germany and France, 1920s to 1950s
Chapter 77 : The Reception of Scientific Management by British Engineers, 1890-1914
Chapter 78 : Worker Resistance and Taylorism in Britain

Section B : Scientific Management in Western Europe
Chapter 79 : Between Taylorism and Technocracy : European Ideologies and The Vision of Industrial Productivity in The 1920s
Chapter 80 : Taylorism and The Italian Unions
Chapter 81 : Scientific Management and Personnel Policy in The Modern German Enterprise 1918-1939 : The Case of Siemens
Chapter 82 : American Management Consulting Companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990 : Products, Reputation, and Relationships

Section C : Scientific Management in Eastern Europe
Chapter 83 : The Taylor System : Man's Enslavement by The Machine
Chapter 84 : Alexei Gastev and The Soviet Controversy Over Taylorism, 1918-24
Chapter 85 : The Role of Scientific Management in The Construction of an Advanced Socialist Society
Chapter 86 : Soviet Taylorism Revisited
Chapter 87 : Scientific Management and Stakhanovism in The Soviet Union : A Historical Perspective

Section D : Scientific Management in Asia

Chapter 88 : Early American Influence on Japanese Management Philosophy : The Scientific Management Movement in Japan
Chapter 89 : The Introduction of Scientific Management by The Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Co. and The Formation of an Organised Scientific Management Movement in Japan in The 1920s and 1930s
Chapter 90 : The Work Ethic, Luddites and Taylorism in Japanese Management Literature
Chapter 91 : North Korea : 'Scientific Management' to The Rescue?