The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

From: Personnel Psychology | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Robert KanigeL The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. New York: Viking, 1997, 675 pages, $34.95.

Reviewed by Victoria Buenger, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

How do your tastes run? To the ornate style of rococo architecture? To the intricate patterns of pointillist painting? To the interconnecting layers of a baroque fugue? If you prefer a haiku, you had better stay away from Robert Kanigel's new biography of Frederick W Taylor. At 675 pages (including 70 pages of notes), this mammoth ...

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