IE Societies - Beginning

Similarly, the advocates of scientific management sought a professionally-based platform from their earliest days. Of course, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) had been there from the beginning. However, even some of the advocates of systematic management techniques resented the efforts of Taylor, and especially Cooke, to detract from the primary mission of the ASME.

The scientific management advocates countered by forming two new societies, the Society to Promote the Science of Management (formed in 1911 and renamed the Taylor Society in 1915) and the Efficiency Society (1912). In addition, they organized and attended professional conferences, most notably the Tuck School Conference in 1911.

The internal politics of the new societies and the continuing struggles of Scientific Management advocates to have a voice within the ASME is a story by itself. However, one advantage of the new societies was that the scientific management advocates could continue to publish in the Bulletin of the Taylor Society long after the ASME′s Transactionsbecame unavailable to them.

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From mechanical engineering to re-engineering: Would Taylor be pleased with modern management
Journal of Management History

Volume: 1

Number: 2

Year: 1995

pp: 38-51