November 16, 2019

SCIENTIFIC METHOD - SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES



Came across a PhD thesis

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN THE MANAGEMENT OF
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES of of University of Ottawa in 1944 Orville Eadie
https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/21190

The contents are:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter Page
I. Introduction 3
II. Frederick W. Taylor, Pioneer 5
Part A. Management and Methods
III. Plant Layout and Work Routing 19
IV. Job Analysis, Time and Motion Study, Job Specifications 33
V. Business Forms 57
VI. Special Considerations in the Application of Scientific Methods to Office Management .. . 65
Part B. Management and Men
VII. Employment Procedure 96
VIII. The Use of Tests in Employee Selection and Assignment 107
IX. Employee Training Methods 131
X. Labor Relations as a Problem of Management . . 142
XI. Remuneration of Employees 151
XII. Fatigue 163
XIII. Industrial Health 171
Part C. Present Achievements and the Future
XIV. A Summary of the Contributions Made to Im proved Business Management by the Application
of Scientific Method 183
XV. The Trend of Future Development 190

It is an interesting beginning of the subject in 1944. I have to write on the topic as I recently read a book onMarketing by Cherington, a former Harvard Business School faculty, who links some chapters to Scientific Management.

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