ABSTRACT
The analysis in the previous chapter centred upon the professional influence of two engineers, Frederick Taylor and Henri Fayol, upon the evolution of management theory and practice and the emergence of a first model of technical efficiency (TE
mp ). It was argued that technical efficiency (TE
mp ), as practised by
Taylor and other engineers of his period, brought rigour to the specific management task of achieving more output from workers and their equipment. The contributions of both Taylor and Fayol to management or administrative science involved a search for different ways to strengthen the foundations of the science of management, to enhance its reputation and to develop its perfection and substance, to paraphrase Bacon’s aforementioned comment. The analysis also reviewed aspects of the literature of learning and sought to challenge the capacity of learning to be a source of individual and organizational development.
