Frederick Taylor is rightly considered the "father" of the modern system of rational organization of labor. He stood at the origins of management in enterprises. The revolutionary innovations proposed by the American engineer were initially accepted with hostility. But the experience at Ford's car factories has convincingly shown what attractive prospects Taylorism has in it.
Facts from the biography of Frederick Taylor
The future engineer, who did a lot to create a scientific, rational organization of labor, was born March 21, 1856 in Pennsylvania (United States). Frederick's father had a law practice. Frederick himself was educated in Europe - first in France, then in Germany. Taylor later studied at Harvard Law School, but his vision problems prevented him from continuing his studies.
After 1874, Taylor began to master working specialties. He began with a press service worker at a Philadelphia plant. Soon, the United States began an economic depression, which is why Taylor had to be content with being a regular laborer in a steel mill.
In subsequent years, Frederick grew to the head of the workshops. At the same time, he was trained at a technological institute, receiving a degree of a qualified mechanical engineer.
In 1884, Taylor, who took the position of chief engineer, tested a new payment system that takes into account labor productivity.
Engineer and innovator
In the 90s, Taylor, who had been managing an investment company in Philadelphia at that time, founded his business in the area called management consulting. After a decade and a half, Frederick established the Management Assistance Society, combining engineering with the science of production management.
In those years, Taylor conducted research in the field of innovative labor organization. About a hundred inventive ideas Frederick defended with patents.
What did Frederick Winslow Taylor do? The engineer decomposed the work of the worker into elementary operations and, with a stopwatch in his hands, determined the extremely strict regulations for their implementation. Unnecessary movements were sequentially excluded from the labor process, for which a significant part of the time was spent in total. Another innovation was the special training of workers.
The Taylor system was very revolutionary at that time and made a significant contribution to the science of production. Frederick argued: any work can be analyzed, systematized, decomposed into simple elements and transferred to any employee, even if he does not have the initial skills. So Taylor laid the foundations of the current vocational training system.
In practice, the system of rationalizing the production of Taylor with considerable success was applied by the famous Henry Ford. As a result, his plants began to produce products of the best quality and with the least expenditure of resources.
