Whose management principles are related with shop floor?

F.W. Taylor

While F.W. Taylor succeeded in revolutionising the working of factory shop-floor in terms of devising the best method, fair day’s work, differential piece-rate system and functional foremanship; Henri Fayol explained what amounts to a managers work and what principles should be followed in doing this work. If workers’ efficiency mattered in the factory system, so does the managerial efficiency. Fayol’s contribution must be interpreted in terms of the impact that his writings had and continue to have improvement in managerial efficiencies