Don't throw scientific management out with the bathwater

Quality Progress

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 61-64

  Freeman, Michael G ^a,b,c  

^a Business Associates   (United States)

^b Friends University   (United States)

^c ASQC ^*

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References (17)

1. Frederick W. Taylor. Scientific Management: Comprising Shop Management, The Principles of Scientific Management. Testimony Before the Special House Committee (New York. NY: Harper & Brothers. 1947). Shop Management was originally written in 1903, Principles was written in 1911, and the testimony was given in 1912.
2. Ibid.
3. R.G. Greenwood and R.H. Ross, "Early American Influence on Japanese Management Philosophy: The Scientific Management Movement in Japan," in S.M. Lee and G. Schwendiman, editors, Management by Japanese Systems (New York, NY: Praeger, 1982), pp. 43-54.
4. K. Okuda, comment made at 15th International Conference on Business History, Fuji, Japan, 1988, in Japanese Management in Historical Perspective: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference (Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 1989), pp. 192-196.
5. Robert E. Cole, Work Mobility and Participation: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1979).
6. J.M. Juran, and Frank M. Gryna, editors, Juran's Quality Control Handbook. 4th edition (New York. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1988).
7. Robert Chapman Wood, " A Lesson Learned and a Lesson Forgotten," Forbes, February 6, 1989, pp. 70-78.
8. Ibid.
9. The Taylor Society, Scientific Management in American Industry (Easton, PA: Hive Publishing Company, 1972).
10. Mary Walton, The Deming Management Method (New York, NY: Dodd, 1986).
11. Cole, Work Mobility and Participation: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry.
12. Juran and Gryna, Juran's Quality Control Handbook.
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15. Stewart, "The Work Ethic, Luddites, and Taylorism in Japanese Management Literature."
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