While Weber focused almost exclusively on the work of large bureaucratic organizations, management theorist Frederick Taylor, writing not long after the beginning of the twentieth century,examined the activities of
individual workers to determine the most efficient method of working. A leading
proponent of what came to be called "Scientific Management"school, Taylor contended that each task could be assigned to the appropriate worker
based on that worker's skills Moreover, the worker could be sufficienty
trained in the most efficient method of accomplishing the specified goal. Thus, if a worker were assigned the task of shoveling rice coal, a manager's