Academics and business owners periodically come up with theories for increasing worker output while keeping the same number of workers through modern management theories. According to political science professor Dr. Yasin Olum, modern management is the era of management that began in the 1880s and 1890s with Frederick Taylor, who argued for the abandonment of old management practices for empirically backed best practices. To maximize productivity, managers must understand the latest best practices.
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