Abstract
Between 1893 and 1911, F.W Taylor published a series of books about management that defines the basis of a new science: The scientific organization of work . On the one hand, he notes "the dawdling" of workers, who are at the same time influenced by their natural way to be lazy and the strategy of managers who use the technical progress to increase the output instead of encouraging, by the rise of the wages, an increase of productivity. In addition, he notices the rejection of the workers showing zeal by their fellow-members. According to him, the awkwardness and the inefficiency of the daily acts, the bad execution of the spontaneous movements cause immense losses. He thinks that prosperity can only come from the greatest possible productivity of men and machines. He wants each worker to make a work which is compatible with his personal skills, while being involved, with the fastest pace and the maximum effectiveness. From this he will create three principles that are the basis of Taylor's system: the vertical division of work (Every intellectual work must be removed of the workshop to be concentrated in the offices of planning and organization), the horizontal division of work, a wage that is based on yields and a control of time.
