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Who is regarded as the 'Father of Scientific Management'?
AHenry Fayol
BF W Taylor
CPhilip Kotler
DPeter Drucker
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. F W Taylor
1. Henry Fayol authored 14 principles of administrative management.
2. F W Taylor pioneered scientific study of work, time-and-motion study, and standardisation of tools.
3. Kotler is a marketing theorist; Drucker is a management thinker but not the originator of scientific management.
4. Hence F W Taylor is the Father of Scientific Management.
_Source: Maharashtra Balbharati Std XII OCM, Ch 1 "Principles of Management", §1.2 ¶§1.2_
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