scientific management
E62964
historical management school
industrial engineering approach
management theory
organizational theory
Scientific management is an early 20th-century theory of industrial organization that applies systematic study and measurement of work to increase labor productivity and efficiency.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taylorism | 5 |
| scientific management canonical | 2 |
| Psychology and Industrial Efficiency | 1 |
| The Principles of Scientific Management | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505163 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: scientific management Context triple: [Second Industrial Revolution, hasKeyTechnology, scientific management]
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A.
Administrative Behavior
Administrative Behavior is Herbert A. Simon’s influential book that applies behavioral and decision-making theories to explain how organizations and their administrators actually function.
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B.
Fordism
Fordism is a system of mass production and industrial management characterized by assembly-line manufacturing, high wages, and standardized products, pioneered in the early 20th century automobile industry.
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C.
FE Industrial and Systems
FE Industrial and Systems is a discipline-specific version of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam focused on industrial and systems engineering principles and practices.
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D.
Models of Man
Models of Man is a seminal book by Herbert A. Simon that explores human decision-making and behavior through the lens of bounded rationality and mathematical models in the social sciences.
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E.
Science and Human Behavior
Science and Human Behavior is a foundational book by B. F. Skinner that systematically presents the principles of behaviorism and their application to understanding and predicting human actions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: scientific management Target entity description: Scientific management is an early 20th-century theory of industrial organization that applies systematic study and measurement of work to increase labor productivity and efficiency.
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A.
Administrative Behavior
Administrative Behavior is Herbert A. Simon’s influential book that applies behavioral and decision-making theories to explain how organizations and their administrators actually function.
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B.
Fordism
Fordism is a system of mass production and industrial management characterized by assembly-line manufacturing, high wages, and standardized products, pioneered in the early 20th century automobile industry.
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C.
FE Industrial and Systems
FE Industrial and Systems is a discipline-specific version of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam focused on industrial and systems engineering principles and practices.
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D.
Models of Man
Models of Man is a seminal book by Herbert A. Simon that explores human decision-making and behavior through the lens of bounded rationality and mathematical models in the social sciences.
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E.
Science and Human Behavior
Science and Human Behavior is a foundational book by B. F. Skinner that systematically presents the principles of behaviorism and their application to understanding and predicting human actions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical management school
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industrial engineering approach ⓘ management theory ⓘ organizational theory ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Taylorism
ⓘ
linked to:
scientific management
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| appliedIn |
factory management
ⓘ
industrial production ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| coreGoal |
increase efficiency
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increase labor productivity ⓘ reduce waste in work processes ⓘ standardize work methods ⓘ |
| corePrinciple |
close supervision of workers
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division of planning and doing ⓘ incentive-based pay ⓘ scientific study of tasks ⓘ selection and training of workers ⓘ standardization of tools and procedures ⓘ time and motion study ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
deskilling of labor
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excessive managerial control ⓘ ignoring social and psychological needs of workers ⓘ treating workers as machines ⓘ |
| developedBy | Frederick Winslow Taylor ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
The Principles of Scientific Management
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linked to:
scientific management
|
| emergedInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
managerial control over the labor process
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measurement of work ⓘ rationalization of work ⓘ task specialization ⓘ |
| formalizedInYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Second Industrial Revolution ⓘ |
| influenced |
Fordist mass production
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industrial engineering ⓘ modern management science ⓘ operations management ⓘ production management ⓘ work study practices ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
industrialization
ⓘ
mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
differential piece-rate system
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functional foremanship ⓘ one best way to perform a task ⓘ |
| keyMethod |
motion study
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task analysis ⓘ time study ⓘ work simplification ⓘ |
| originCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| relatedTo |
bureaucratic management
ⓘ
classical management theory ⓘ human relations movement (as a reaction) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: scientific management Description of subject: Scientific management is an early 20th-century theory of industrial organization that applies systematic study and measurement of work to increase labor productivity and efficiency.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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