Quote: systematic, scientific management can fix human inefficiencies with astounding results; it has clearly defined laws, rules, and principles

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This paper has been written: First. To point out, ... the great loss which the whole country is suffering from inefficiency in almost all of our daily acts. Second. To try to convince the reader that the remedy for this inefficiency lies in systematic management ... Third. To prove that the best management is a true science, resting upon clearly defined laws, rules, and principles, as a foundation. And further to show that the fundamental principles of scientific management are applicable to all kinds of human activities, from our simplest individual acts to the work of our great corporations ... And, briefly, through a series of illustrations, to convince the reader that whenever these principles are correctly applied, results must follow which are truly astounding.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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