May - Henry L. Gantt Month of Industrial Engineering and Productivity Management

 

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Henry Gantt - Biography and Contribution - Industrial Engineering

Henry Laurence Gantt, A.B., M.E. (May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical and industrial engineering.

Gantt was born in Calvert County, Maryland. He graduated from McDonogh School in 1878 and from Johns Hopkins University in 1880. He taught at the McDonogh School for three years. He received a Masters of Engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

In 1884, he joined as a Mechanical Engineer with Pool and Hunt of Baltimore. In 1887 became an assistant to Frederick W. Taylor in applying industrial engineering (scientific management) principles to the work at Midvale Steel and Bethlehem Steel, working there with Taylor until 1893. In his later career as a management systems  consultant, he designed the 'task and bonus' system of wage payment and additional measurement methods for worker efficiency and productivity.

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