The Principles of Scientific Management

2014 reprint of 1911 edition. full facsimile of the original edition. this influential monograph, which laid out the principles of scientific management, is a seminal text of modern organization and decision theory and has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique. taylor was an american manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and then a management consultant in his later years. he is often called "the father of scientific management." his approach is also often referred to, as taylor's principles, or taylorism.