This document summarizes Frederick Winslow Taylor and the principles of scientific management. It discusses how Taylor sought to improve industrial efficiency through analyzing and standardizing workflows. He determined the most efficient way for tasks to be performed and advocated that everyone follow those standardized processes. The document outlines Taylor's core values like experimentation, clear goals and tasks, training, and improving quality and wages. It also discusses criticisms of scientific management, like it reducing workers' autonomy and flexibility. Finally, it contrasts scientific management with humanistic, social system, and futuristic approaches to management.