The Taylor Key Award is one of the highest awards of the
Society for Advancement of Management
The Society for the Advancement of Management, commonly known as SAM, is the oldest among professional management societies. On November 11, 1910 colleagues of Frederick W. Taylor met at the New York Athletic Club to discuss and promote the prin ...
. This management awards is awarded annually to one or more persons for "the outstanding contribution to the advancement of the art and science of management as conceived by Frederick W. Taylor."''Advanced Management,'' Volume 17. 1952. p. 227Moustafa H. Abdelsamad (ed.), ''S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal,'' Volume 53. 1988. p. 40.
The Taylor Key has been awarded in cooperation with the
American Management Association
The American Management Association (AMA) is an American non-profit educational membership organization for the promotion of management, based in New York City. Besides its headquarters there, it has local head offices throughout the world.
It o ...
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Hugo Diemer
Hugo Diemer (November 18, 1870 – March 3, 1939)SAM, "Necrology Hugo Diemer, November 18, 1960 – March 3, 1939", in: ''The Society for the Advancement of Management Journal'', Volume 4, Nr 1-4. 1939. p. 35/56 was an American engineer, managemen ...
William H. Gesell
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* 1940: Henry S. Dennison
* 1941: Morris L. CookeMargaret A. Firth. ''Handbook of scientific and technical awards in the United States and Canada, 1900-1952.'' 1956. p. 364
* 1942: King Hathaway
* 1943:
Harlow S. Person
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Biography Youth, e ...
Herbert C. Hoover
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Ralph C. Davis
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Robert S. McNamara
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Nobuo Noda
was a prominent Japanese business scholar professor of management at the Seikei University and president of the Seikei University in Tokyo, known as one of Japan's longstanding leaders in the field of management theory,Asian Productivity Organiza ...
* 1971. Donald C. Burnham
* 1972: John F. Mee
* 1973: J. Allyn Taylor
* 1974:
Harold Koontz
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W. Edwards Deming
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* 1998: Nobuo Shigenaga
* 2000: Moustafa H. Abdelsamad
* 2005: William I. Sauser, Jr.Moustafa H. Abdelsamad (ed.) ''SAM Advanced Management Journal.'' 03/22/2003
* 2019: Edwin A. Fleishman
Other prominent winners of the Taylor Key Awards have been Don G. Mitchell, and Kaichiro Nishino.