Taylorism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The Reformed school of theology developed by Nathaniel William Taylor. uncountable, usually

    "Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point."

  2. 2
    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, usually

    "One of the ideological supporting pillars of systems thinking in the 1920s had been Lenin's analysis of Taylorism."

  3. 3
    One of the witty, epigrammatic remarks on international relations for which the historian Alan John Percivale Taylor was well-known. countable, usually

    "The brisk and lively narrative is spiced with Taylorisms: ' Hitler lost , as someone has to do in war, and has therefore been written off as a psychopath'."

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new england theology

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"Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point."

Etymology

From Taylor + -ism.

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