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Frederick Taylor

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The American engineer Frederick Taylor, as presented by Tareq al-Suwaidan: in 1911 he published what is counted as the first scientific study of modern management and was named 'father of scientific management'; his philosophy treated the worker as a machine moved by money (Theory X).

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Global / Diaspora
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Politics, governance and authority

Summary

Tareq al-Suwaidan presents Frederick Taylor as the 'father of scientific management': an engineer who helped Henry Ford improve the assembly line, then in 1911 published what is counted as the first scientific study of modern management 1.

His theory

Al-Suwaidan explains that Taylor began with organising, moved on to planning, and set out the division of the four administrative operations: planning, organising, directing and controlling 2. His philosophy treats the worker as a machine that needs fuel to work, its fuel being money — what later became known as Theory X 3. Al-Suwaidan notes that many of those who developed management science were not specialists in it at all: Taylor was an engineer 4.

People and things also explored

Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)· Islamic management· Experience versus service, and self-development· The nominal group technique· Leadership and the leader's six roles· Situational leadership

Sources

  1. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:28:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  2. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:29:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  3. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:30:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  4. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:27:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
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Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)

Diwan is a Persian loan-word meaning a collection of sheets and writings, in which the army and those given grants were written; for the jurists it is the register in which the names of those in state service who receive a stipend from the public treasury are recorded, and the office that keeps it. Umar ibn al-Khattab was the first to set up the diwan, according to two accounts. The people of the diwan are of several kinds: soldiers, on conditions that are regulatory, such as puberty, freedom, Islam, health and fitness for fighting; holders of office, such as governors, judges, scholars, collectors, imams and muezzins; and the needy. The Companions differed on preference in distribution: Abu Bakr and Ali made it equal, while Umar and Uthman preferred by precedence in Islam, and Umar added kinship to the Prophet; Abu Hanifa and Ahmad followed the latter view.