Why Jargon Has Prevailed
By trade, Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer, but heโs not renowned for that. Long before the Bobs in Office Space, Taylor was arguably the worldโs first efficiency expert. In the late nineteenth century, he spent a great deal of time watching factory workers perยญforming manual tasks. Taylor wasnโt bored, nor was he a voyeur. He was working, recording everything he saw with his stopwatch. He was on a quest to find the one best way to do each job. That information would further his ultimate goal: to improveโin fact, to maximizeโeconomic efficiency, especially labor productivity. This became the basis for his theory of scientific management.
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