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Henry Laurence Gantt was an American inventor, industrial engineer, mechanical engineer, and manager. He was born in Calvert County on May 20, 1861, and died in Montclair on November 23, 1919. Gantt was educated at Stevens Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, and Ibero-American University. He worked in the fields of industrial management, workforce productivity, and mechanical engineering.
His notable work includes the Gantt chart. He authored several works, including *The utilization of labor*, *Training workmen in habits of industry and coöperation*, *Travail, salaires et bénéfices*, *Task work the basis of proper management*, and *Industrial organization*. Gantt spoke English. His work has been referenced by 288 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 May 1861
- Died
- 23 Nov 1919
- Works
- 12
Top works
- The utilization of labor
- Training workmen in habits of industry and coöperation
- Travail, salaires et bénéfices
- Task work the basis of proper management
- Industrial organization
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,494x
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,817x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,471x
- Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
· 1945 · cited 14,316x
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Quotes
- “The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor. The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good.”
- “The aim of our efficiency has not been to produce goods, but to harvest dollars... The production of goods was always secondary to the securing of dollars.”
- “Finance and industry must be socialized somehow. If we refuse to do it from the bottom we shall have to do it from the top, and doing it from the top means the emergence of many Prussias — with wars upon wars.”
- “The mechanical engineer today is carrying forward, under the direction of science, the work that was begun by the mechanic who first learned to chip flint or make a fire ; and it is he alone that can lead the mechanic of today to a better understanding of his problems, and the capitalist to a better appreciation of their solution.”
- “"Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development... The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and to lead, to the advantage of all concerned"”
- “Taylor’s friend Henry Gantt explains to his fellow engineers in the middle of the First World War that they must "develop a task system on the basis of democracy that will yield as good, or better, results than those now in operation under autocracy"”
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Key facts
- Born
- Henry Laurence Gantt , May 20, 1861, Calvert County, Maryland , U.S.
- Died
- November 23, 1919 (1919-11-23) (aged 58), Montclair, New Jersey , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Johns Hopkins University ( A.B. ), Stevens Institute of Technology ( M.E. )
- Known for
- Gantt chart
- Fields
- Scientific management
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Encyclopedic overview
Henry Laurence Gantt (/ɡænt/; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who worked in the development of scientific management. He created the Gantt chart in the 1910s.
Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and Interstate highway system and continue to be an important tool in project management and program management.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Henry Gantt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.