Horace King Hathaway (9 April 1878 - 12 June 1944) was an American consulting engineer and lecturer at Harvard Business School, MIT and the Wharton School, known as one of the foreman of scientific management. [1] [2] [3]
Horace King Hathaway (9 April 1878 - 12 June 1944) was an American consulting engineer and lecturer at Harvard Business School, MIT and the Wharton School, known as one of the foreman of scientific management. [1] [2] [3]
Born in San Francisco in 1878, Hathaway attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in Philadelphia and afterwards was apprentice and foreman with the Midvale Steel Company from 1894 to 1896. [4]
In 1902 Hathaway was appointed superintendent at the Payne Engine Company in Elmira, New York. In 1904 he moved to the Link-Belt Company in Philadelphia for a year as assistant to Frederick Winslow Taylor and Carl Barth. From 1905 to 1910 he assisted Barth at the Tabor Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, where he eventually served as vice president. [4]
From 1907 to 1923 Hathaway was consulting engineer at Taylor's consulting firm in Philadelphia, and in between served in the US Army in World War I. From 1923 to 1927 he was consulting engineer back at the West Coast, from 1927 to 1941 director at a chemical company in St. Louis, and from 1941 to his death in 1944 again consulting engineer in the West. [4]
Over the years Hataway had lectured at Harvard Business School, MIT and the Wharton School, and in his last year the lectured at Stanford University. [4]
Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living." Gilbreth, one of the first female engineers to earn a Ph.D., is considered to be the first industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, were efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering, especially in the areas of motion study and human factors. Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) and Belles on Their Toes (1950), written by two of their children tell the story of their family life and describe how time-and-motion studies were applied to the organization and daily activities of their large family. Both books were later made into feature films.
Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The Principles of Scientific Management which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management book of the twentieth century. His pioneering work in applying engineering principles to the work done on the factory floor was instrumental in the creation and development of the branch of engineering that is now known as industrial engineering. Taylor made his name, and was most proud of his work, in scientific management; however, he made his fortune patenting steel-process improvements. As a result, scientific management is sometimes referred to as Taylorism.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. It is the world's oldest collegiate business school, established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton.
Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes to management. Scientific management is sometimes known as Taylorism after its pioneer, Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Henry Laurence Gantt was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management. He created the Gantt chart in the 1910s.
Leon Pratt Alford was an American mechanical engineer, organizational theorist, and administrator for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. known for his seminal work in the field of industrial management.
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood was a noted American chemical engineer and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Carl Georg Lange Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician, mechanical and consulting engineer, and lecturer at Harvard University. Barth is known as one of the foreman of scientific management, who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules.
Wilfred Lewis was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, director for the machine tool firm William Sellers & Co, and later president of the Tabor Manufacturing Company. He is known for his early work on the bending of gear teeths, and his later work on scientific management. In the late 19th century Lewis had developed a bending equation, which became standard for gear design. The Lewis stress factor for gears is named after him.
Hugo Diemer was an American engineer, management consultant, and professor at the Penn State University, who in 1910 published the first industrial engineering textbook: Factory Organization and Administration.
Henry Wallace Clark was an American consulting engineer, known for popularizing the work of Henry Gantt with his 1922 work "The Gantt chart; a working tool of management".
The Taylor Society was an American society for the discussion and promotion of scientific management, named after Frederick Winslow Taylor.
James Mapes Dodge was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, industrialist and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1903–1904. He is known as president of the Link-Belt Company, and as pioneer of applying scientific management methods.
Charles Day was an American electrical, construction and consulting engineer, and co-founder of Day & Zimmermann. He is known as a specialist in public utility management and operation, and for his seminal contributions to flow charts and the routing diagram.
Robert Thurston Kent was an American mechanical engineer, editor of Industrial Engineering and consultant, known as one of the foremen of scientific management.
Horace Bookwalter Drury was an American economist, lecturer at Ohio State University, and management author, particularly known for his early work on scientific management.
Percy Shiras Brown was an American chemical, industrial and consulting management engineer, educator, and business executive, who served as president of the Taylor Society in 1924–1925, and as president of the Society for Advancement of Management in 1942–44.
Hathaway is an English surname. Notable people and characters with the name include:
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
