Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Part I. Work Measurement: Theory, Practice, and Fact -- 1. Some Basic Problems of Inference -- 2. The Nature of Time Study -- 3. The Validity of Bating Procedures -- 4. Work Measurement in Practice -- Part II. A Work Measurement Theory:...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- 1. Introduction: Industrial Experimental Studies -- 2. Designing a Research Program on Industrial Productivity -- 3. The Problem of Process Standardization -- 4. Case Studies of Local Stability -- 5. Studies of Local Stability:...

Discusses the experimental criteria for evaluating workers and operations. Frederick W. Taylor's formulation of the general principles of scientific management; Difference between physical and labor problems; Viewpoints of other early leaders of scientific management. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Two plants in the women's garment industry--one with modern and comprehensive programs for worker training and production and cost control, and the other with its production process "organized and regulated in an intuitive, unsystematic manner"--afforded Adam Abruzzi an excellent opportunity to...