Taylorism

noun3

1. •
   Scientific management; a theory of management of the early 20th century that analyzed workflows in order to improve efficiency, originally developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.

   • One of the ideological supporting pillars of systems thinking in the 1920s had been Lenin's analysis of Taylorism. — 1982
2. •
   One of the witty, epigrammatic remarks on international relations for which the historian Alan John Percivale Taylor was well-known.

   • The brisk and lively narrative is spiced with Taylorisms: ' Hitler lost , as someone has to do in war, and has therefore been written off as a psychopath'. — 1975
3. •
   The Reformed school of theology developed by Nathaniel William Taylor.

   • Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point. — 1834