Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Industrial Engineering

The first volume concentrates on early texts which first defined and clarified the approach to management, such as Robert Owen's address To the Superintendants of Manufactories. Owen's insistence that the volume and quality of a worker's output were influenced by the conditions of the total environment, shaped the direction of management theory. Selections from Henry Metcalfe on the science of administration, Henry Laurence Gantt introducing the concept of motivation and Henry Robinson Towne on the importance of an organized exchange of experience among managers, made equally valid...

This second edition Encyclopedia supplies nearly 350 gold standard articles on the methods, practices, products, and standards influencing the chemical industries. It offers expertly written articles on technologies at the forefront of the field to maximize and enhance the research and production phases of current and emerging chemical manufacturing practices and techniques. This collecting of information is of vital interest to chemical, polymer, electrical, mechanical, and civil engineers, as well as chemists and chemical researchers.

A complete reconceptualization of the...