Frontmatter -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Table of Contents -- Part I. A History of Scientific Management … -- Chapter I. The Meaning of Scientific Management -- Chapter II. Early Attempts at a Solution of the Wages Problem -- Chapter … III. The Genesis of the Principles of Scientific Management -- Chapter IV. Lives of the Leaders: Including Certain …

Scientific management is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of management devised by him. In this … article we present our discovery of very different scientific management principles that were developed roughly concurrently … with Taylorism by German physicist Ernst Abbe, then owner and managing director of the Carl Zeiss optical instruments …