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
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 ...
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
F.W. Taylor,
Lyndall Urwick
Lyndall Fownes Urwick (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management admi ...
, 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''
A. W. Shaw Company, 1919.
*William Henry Leffingwell, ''Office Management - Principles and Practice,'' London:
A. W. Shaw Company, 1925.
*William Henry Leffingwell, ''The Office Appliance Manual,''
National Association of Office Appliance Manufacturers, 1926.
*William Henry Leffingwell, ''A Textbook of Office Management.'' New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1932.
*William Henry Leffingwell and Edwin Marshall Robinson, ''Textbook of Office Management,'' New York:
McGraw-Hill
McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referenc ...
, 1943.
References
Further reading
*
Lyndall Urwick
Lyndall Fownes Urwick (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management admi ...
, ''The Golden Book of Management: A Historical Record of the Life and Work of Seventy Pioneers'' (1956)
1876 births
1934 deaths
American business theorists
American economists
People from Oxford County, Ontario
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