Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness
Forfatter: L.M. Gilbreth, Frank B. Gilbreth
År: 1918
Forlag: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.
Sted: London
Sider: 220
UDK: 658.54 Gil
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APPLIED MOTION STUDY
WHAT SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
MEANS TO AMERICA’S INDUS-
TRIAL POSITION 1
There is some confusion to-day as to the mean-
ing of scientific management. This concerns it-
self with the nature of such management itself,
with the scope or field to which such management
applies, and with the aims that it desires to at-
tain. Scientific management is simply manage-
ment that is based upon actual measurement.
Its skilful application is an art that must be ac-
quired, but its fundamental principles have the
exactness of scientific laws which are open to
study by every one. We have here nothing hid-
den or occult or secret, like the working practices
of an old-time craft; we have here a science that
is the result of accurately recorded, exact investi-
gation. Its results are formulated, or are being
i Reprinted from “The Annals” of the American Acad-
emy of Political and Social Science, Publication No. 935.
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