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Henry Laurence Gantt (/ ɡ æ n t /; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management.
Henry Wallace Clark (July 27, 1880 – April 7, 1948) was an American consulting engineer, known for popularizing the work of Henry Gantt with his 1922 work "The Gantt chart; a working tool of management". [1] [2] In 1934 he was awarded the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal by the ASME. [3]
The chart is named after Henry Gantt (1861–1919), who designed his chart around the years 1910–1915. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Gantt originally created his tool for systematic, routine operations. He designed this visualization tool to more easily measure productivity levels of employees and gauge which employees were under- or over-performing.
Horace Bookwalter Drury, in his 1918 work, Scientific management: A History and Criticism, identified seven other leaders in the movement, most of whom learned of and extended scientific management from Taylor's efforts: [4] Henry L. Gantt (1861–1919) Carl G. Barth (1860–1939) Horace K. Hathaway (1878–1944) Morris L. Cooke (1872–1960)
Henry Gantt - Gantt chart (20th century) Burleigh B. Gardner (1902–1985) - motivation research; Michael Gerber - E-Myth Revisited; Jamshid Gharajedaghi (born 1940) - American organizational theorist, management consultant, and Adjunct Professor of Systems Thinking; Sumantra Ghoshal; John P. van Gigch; Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
In the early 1920s, the Canadian textile industry was re-organized according to scientific management principles. In 1928, workers at Canada Cotton Ltd. in Hamilton, Ontario went on strike against newly introduced Taylorist work methods. Also, Henry Gantt, who was a close associate of Taylor, re-organized the Canadian Pacific Railway. [52]
HENRY COUNTY, Ala. (WDHN) Henry County is taking steps to make sure their primary elections run smoothly. The county’s probate office trained about 100 poll workers today to ensure they are ...
Friction with another scientific management protégé of Taylor's, Henry Gantt (whose family home was in Baltimore), led to Cooke's interventions being largely inconsequential. [8] In 1911, Cooke was appointed director of the Department of Public Works by Philadelphia's reform mayor, Rudolph Blankenburg. It was here that Cooke began to ...