Open House & Tour of the Frederick W. Taylor Room/Archive at the Samuel C. Williams Library
Who: Led by Leah Loscutoff, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Where: Library
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
What: Reception
Where: Babbio Atrium
Friday, September 25
Friday, September 25
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Opening Plenary & Keynote Speaker
Who: Simon Head, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU and Director of Programs for the New York Review of Books Foundation
Where: Bissinger (Howe Center, 4th floor)
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Open House & Tour of the Frederick W. Taylor Room/Archive at the Samuel C. Williams Library
Who: Led by Leah Loscutoff, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Where: Library
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Opening remarks from Library Director, Linda Beninghove
Where: Bissinger Room (Howe Center, 4th Floor)
9:10 AM – 10:30 AM - Session 1: Taylorism Before World War II
Manley R. Irwin (University of New Hampshire) “Committedto Scientific Management: Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, 1921-1924”
Adelheid Voskuhl ( University of Pennsylvania) “Engineers Study Taylor: Reading Experience and Theories of Modernity in the Industrial Age in Germany and the U.S.”
Lillie Depounti, Christos Karabatsos, Aristotle Tympas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) “Transformations of Taylorism Under Political Crises: The Greek Experience”
Where: Bissinger Room (Howe Center, 4th Floor)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Morning Break
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM - Session 2: Critical Assessments
Chris Nyland (Monash University) “Taylorist Theorists, Marxist Practitioners and Their Critical Engagement”
Kyle Bruce (Macquarie University) “Activist Manager: The enduring contribution of Henry S. Dennison to management and organization studies.”
Where: Bissinger Room (Howe Center, 4th Floor)
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Stevens student poster session, remarks from Dr.Lee Vinsel.
Where: Bissinger Room (Howe Center, 4th Floor)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch Break with Featured Speaker James E. McClellan III, Stevens Institute of Technology
Brian Frehner (Oklahoma State University) “Taylorized Hillsides: Conserving Oil Resources Through the Application of Petroleum Geology”
John Alic ( Independent Consultant) “Taylorism in a Service-Centric Economy”
James Wilson (University of Glasgow) “The Unknown Legacy of F. W. Taylor: How Shop Management Evolved into Materials Requirements Planning”
Where: Bissinger Room (Howe Center, 4th Floor)
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Afternoon Break
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM -- Session 4: Taylorism in the 21st Century
Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College London) “Scientific Management at Work: The True and Lasting Influence of F.W. Taylor on 21st Century British Management Practice”
Louis Ferleger and Matthew Lavallee (Boston University) “Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Legacy in the 21st Century
” Hindy L. Schachter (New Jersey Institute of Technology) “Frederick Taylor and Contemporary Management Education”
