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William Henry Leffingwell
William Henry Leffingwell (June 4, 1876 – December 19, 1934) was an American organizational theorist, president of W. H. Leffingwell, Inc., New Jersey, management author, and the founder of National Office Management Association. Leffingwell was born in Oxford County, Ontario to Wendell Phillips and Mary Catherine (Edwards) Leffingwell, both Americans. He was trained as a stenographer and "applied scientific management to the office." Throughout the 1920s, Leffingwell was a key figure in the Taylor Society. Along with Frederick Winslow Taylor, F.W. Taylor, Lyndall Urwick, and others, Leffingwell was subjected to attack by Harry Braverman in ''Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century'' (1974). Books * William Henry Leffingwell, Making the office pay; tested office plans, methods, and systems that make for better results from everyday routine'' A. W. Shaw Company, 1918. * William Henry Leffingwell, The automatic letterwriter and dictation system' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County is a regional municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 401 runs east–west through the centre of the county, creating an urban industrial corridor with more than half the county's population, spanning 25 km between the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Toyota auto assembly plant in Woodstock and the CAMI Automotive, CAMI General Motors auto assembly plant in Ingersoll. The local economy is otherwise dominated by agriculture, especially the dairy industry. The Oxford County regional seat is in Woodstock, Ontario, Woodstock. Oxford County has been a regional municipality since 2001 but has retained the word "county" in its name. It has a two-tier municipal government structure, with the lower-tier municipalities being the result of a merger in 1975 of a larger number of separate municipalities that previously existed before the restructuring. It also comprises a single Statistics Canada Census divisions of Canada, census division, and a single e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
