ABSTRACT
Scientific management originated with the application of “scientific” principles to the art of industrial management in the late 19th century. As they perfected the new machinery and equipment for the American industrial revolution, many mechanical and industrial engineers, especially Frederick W.Taylor, quickly discovered a “labor problem.” Their perfection of the “mechanical” element of production led to their examination of the “human” element which could not or would not keep pace with nor match the efficiency of their modern industrial machines. In the 1880s and 1890s, they began to explore financial, psychological, and social incentives to increase managerial control of the workplace and to spur workers on to ever increasing output.
