Work
Henry Gantt's legacy to production management is the following:
- The Gantt chart: Still accepted as an important management tool today, it provides a graphic schedule for the planning and controlling of work, and recording progress towards stages of a project. The chart has a modern variation, Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT).
- Industrial Efficiency: Industrial efficiency can only be produced by the application of scientific analysis to all aspects of the work in progress. The industrial management role is to improve the system by eliminating chance and accidents.
- The Task And Bonus System: He linked the bonus paid to managers to how well they taught their employees to improve performance.
- The social responsibility of business: He believed that businesses have obligations to the welfare of the society in which they operate.
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