Question: scientific management theory and the ford motor company

title: Scientific management
text: It is often assumed that Fordism derives from Taylor 's work . Taylor apparently made this assumption himself when visiting the Ford Motor Company 's Michigan plants not too long before he died , but it is likely that the methods at Ford were evolved independently , and that any influence from Taylor 's work was indirect at best . Charles E. Sorensen , a principal of the company during its first four decades , disclaimed any connection at all . There was a belief at Ford , which remained dominant until Henry Ford II took over the company in 1945 , that the world 's experts were worthless , because if Ford had listened to them , it would have failed to attain its great successes . Henry Ford felt that he had succeeded in spite of , not because of , experts , who had tried to stop him in various ways ( disagreeing about price points , production methods , car features , business financing , and other issues ) . Sorensen thus was dismissive of Taylor and lumped him into the category of useless experts . Sorensen held the New England machine tool vendor Walter Flanders in high esteem and credits him for the efficient floorplan layout at Ford , claiming that Flanders knew nothing about Taylor . Flanders may have been exposed to the spirit of Taylorism elsewhere , and may have been influenced by it , but he did not cite it when developing his production technique . Regardless , the Ford team apparently did independently invent modern mass production techniques in the period of 1905 - 1915 , and they themselves were not aware of any borrowing from Taylorism . Perhaps it is only possible with hindsight to see the zeitgeist that ( indirectly ) connected the budding Fordism to the rest of the efficiency movement during the decade of 1905 - 1915 . 

Answer: answer: It is often assumed that Fordism derives from Taylor's work, but the Ford team apparently did independently invent modern mass production techniques in the period of 1905 - 1915, and they themselves were not aware of any borrowing from Taylorism.