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used written records to assist in governmental and commercial activities

Industrial change was accelerated by his ideas of mass production through specialized tasks and the division of labor

- This was the year that Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Principle of Scientific Management was published.

worked at the Midvale and Bethlehem Steel Companies in Pennsylvania. As a mechanical engineer with a Quaker and Puritan background, he was continually appalled by worker's inefficiencies

which consists of reducing each job to the most basic movements possible

is used today primarily to establish job performance standards.

a classification scheme to label seventeen basic hand motion such as "search", "select", "grasps", "hold"

a second classical approach to management is based on attempt to document and understand the experiences of successful managers. It described what managers do and what constituted good management practice

his attention was directed at the activities of all managers and he wrote based on his personal experience

is a rational and efficient form of organization founded on logic, order and legitimate authority