taylorism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Scientific management; a theory of management of the early 20th century that analyzed workflows in order to improve efficiency, originally developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Uncountable
noun
One of the witty, epigrammatic remarks on international relations for which the historian Alan John Percivale Taylor was well-known.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point."
- "In the first half of the 19th century, under the lead of Nathaniel W. Taylor (q.v.) , the Divinity School of Yale became nationally prominent for "Taylorism" or New Haven Theology."
- "Taylorism presented two practical difficulties for person who adopted this theology."
- "One of the ideological supporting pillars of systems thinking in the 1920s had been Lenin's analysis of Taylorism."
- "The separation of planning and control from work execution is constitutive for Taylorism."
- "Taylorism proved to be more persistent than many had expected."