... continues to do so today. In 1883 Frederick W. Taylor started his experiments at the Bethlehem Steel plant developing his scientific management philosophy. Taylor is the best known theorists in the scientific management movement. He was both an engineer and consultant who recognized the need for skilled labor in industry. Before his study's job training was unorganized and workers determined the speed and which they worked. Hiring was on a first come first serve basis without any real consideration for the skill of the worker and people often brought there own tools to work and typically they were not the best tools for the job. Taylor standardized the tools used in factories and picked the ones that worked best. For example, he developed a science for pig iron handling which enabled an average laborer to increase the amount of pig iron handled from 12 tons to 48 tons a day.2 ...

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