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Taylor believed that workers could be motivated to work at their fullest capabilities through monetary incentives. Therefore, he advocated a piecework system, in which the workers’ pay was tied to their output. Workers who met a standard level of production were paid a standard wage rate; higher rates were paid for higher production. He also worked out an incentive system that paid each employee $1.85 per day for meeting the new standard, an increase from the previous rate of $1.15. Productivity at Midvale Steel shot up overnight.

Besides Taylor’s contribution to scienti�c management, the husband-and-wife team of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth also made signi�cant contributions to the �eld. Frank Gilbreth specialized in time and motion studies (Gilbreth, 1970; Locke, 1982). He identi�ed the most e�cient ways to perform tasks in 17 work elements (such as lifting, grasping, hammering, etc.) and called them therbligs. In one of his studies, he used motion picture �lm to record and examine the work of bricklayers; he then restruc‐ tured the tasks in a way that reduced the number of mo‐ tions from 18 to 5, resulting in a 200% productivity in‐ crease (Lewis, Goodman, & Fandt, 2001). Lillian Gilbreth focused on the human aspects of industrial engineering for improving e�ciency and productivity. She favored

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