Frederick Winslow Taylor, is regarded by many as original time-and-motion man and first efficiency expert. He said in 1911, past, man has been In future, System must be first. To organized labour Taylor was a slavedriver, to bosses he was an eccentric and a radical. To himself he was a misunderstood visionary, possessor of the one best way who under banner of science would erase antagonism between labour and management.
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