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

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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

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. Along with F.W. Taylor,

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, and others, Leffingwell was subjected to attack by

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in '' Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century'' (1974).

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* 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:

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, 1943.

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