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increases in productivity. Later, developments stemming from Taylor’s work led to improvements in
the overall planning and scheduling of an entire production process.
Frank B. Gilbreth extended Taylor’s work by his contribution work management, which involved
the identication, analysis, and measurement of fundamental motions involved in performing work.
Work motions were classied as “reach,” “grasp,” “transport,” and so on, and by using motion pic-
tures of workers performing their tasks, Gilbreth was able to measure the average time to perform
each basic motion under varying conditions. This permitted, for the rst time, jobs to be designed
and the time required to perform the job known before the fact. This was a fund ...