William Henry Leffingwell
William Henry Leffingwell (June 4, 1876 – December 19, 1934) was an American organizational theorist,[1] president of W. H. Leffingwell, Inc., New Jersey, management author, and the founder of National Office Management Association.
Leffingwell was born in
stenographer and "applied scientific management to the office."[3] Throughout the 1920s, Leffingwell was a key figure in the Taylor Society
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Along with
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974).[4]
Books
- William Henry Leffingwell, Making the office pay; tested office plans, methods, and systems that make for better results from everyday routine, A. W. Shaw Company, 1918.
- William Henry Leffingwell, The automatic letterwriter and dictation system, A. W. Shaw Company, 1919.
- William Henry Leffingwell, Office Management - Principles and Practice, London: A. W. Shaw Company, 1925.
- William Henry Leffingwell, The Office Appliance Manual, National Association of Office Appliance Manufacturers, 1926.
- William Henry Leffingwell, A Textbook of Office Management. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1932.
- William Henry Leffingwell and Edwin Marshall Robinson, Textbook of Office Management, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943.
References
- ^ Simon Head. The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 2005. p. 60-79
- ^ American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1935. p. RA-60
- ^ Kanigel, Robert. "Taylor-made.(19th-century efficiency expert Frederick Taylor)" (PDF). Gale Group. p. 4. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ISBN 0-85345-940-1.
Further reading
- Lyndall Urwick, The Golden Book of Management: A Historical Record of the Life and Work of Seventy Pioneers (1956)
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