ABSTRACT
Taylor described his theory as: ‘The principle object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee’ (Taylor, 1947, p.31). Taylor’s views were extended and developed by his colleague, Henry Lawrence Gantt (1861-1919) famous today for the charting process which is used for project planning, and by the industrial engineer Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868-1924) and Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) who laid the foundations of the modern science of ‘work study’. Work study is the activity or process of systematically examining, analysing and measuring methods of performing work that involves human activity in order to improve those methods. This has often been termed ‘time and motion study’.
