Talk:Efficiency movement

Brandeis and the railroad rate case
This article would benefit from a discussion of Brandeis' scientific management arguments before the ICC in 1910 and their impact on the era. Ehusman 17:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I believe the attribution of "one best way" to Taylor is in error. Taylorism involved setting time standards for jobs and firing workers who didn't meet the standard. Gilbreth, by contrast, argued that there was no point in timing a worker who was doing the job wrong. He argued that at any state of the art, there was "one best way" to do the job, and that this "one best way" would change as new tools and machines came into use. He argued that it was the job of management to find the "one best way" and train the workers in it before timing them. When I taught Management, I told my students to think of Taylor with a stopwatch, and Gilbreth with a movie camera, the latter to be used to discover whether workers were making unnecessary motions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.40.137.91 (talk) 17:18, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I removed the paragraph about Obama. (1) I know you like him and all that jazz, but he really doesn't need an advert in an article about a political movement that ended some 77 years ago. (2) 'Many' is vague, uncited and completely up to interpretation. (3) Seriously ... do we really need to discuss this? --Chipmonker (talk) 07:54, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I added Gilbreth and Deming. Brandeis indeed should be added Rjensen (talk) 20:11, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have added some info on Brandeis including the railroad initiative under the Antitrust subheading. Let me know if you have questions about the edits. Thanks. Darwin Naz (talk) 22:46, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Two above is correct. "One best way" is from the Gilbreths, not Taylor. I don't really know a good way to rephrase it though. 72.19.88.97 (talk) 19:48, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

What on earth is "model as witnesses" supposed to be (Britain) - output of speech recognition maybe, but I can't guess the intention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.224.9 (talk) 23:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 11 April 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) samee  converse  20:50, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Efficiency Movement → Efficiency movement – There is no suggestion in the cited sources, nor in books more generally, that this is a proper name, so per MOS:CAPS, it should not be capped thus. Dicklyon (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - per MOS:ISMCAPS. Primergrey (talk) 20:10, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - per MOS:ISMCAPS and similar guidance at MOS:DOCTCAPS. Jmar67 (talk) 20:47, 11 April 2019 (UTC)


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