Introduction Frederick Taylor is credited with being the first person to study work as a science. His work has been extremely influential on the study of management and continues to be studied in management courses. He is consistently ranked as the most influential person in the history of management and business (Wren, 2011). His book The Principles of Scientific Management has been translated into many languages. In fact, within the first two years of publication, in 1911, it was translated into French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Italian, and Japanese (Wren, 2011). There is no doubt that Taylor's work is of great importance, but how relevant is it to today's modern management arena? According to Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Sanyo, Technics and Panasonic “We are beyond the Taylor model. Business today is so complex and difficult…..survival depends on the daily mobilization of every ounce of intelligence” (Unknown, n.d.). Yet there is no doubt that Taylor's theories have had an enormous influence on many aspects of modern management. Is your theory of scientific management really for a 'different time and place'? Foundations of Taylor's Scientific Management TheoryTaylor's scientific management theory was developed in the early 1900s and exemplified using cast iron handlers in the Midvale Steel Company. Taylor acknowledged problems with management at the time that needed to be resolved. Soldiering, the group's mutual agreement to do a deliberately low amount of work, was a big deal at the time. There were constant battles between management and workers. Management wanted to pay the lowest possible wage and in retaliation the workers worked as little as possible. Taylor's new theory aimed to eliminate all these half-paper inefficiencies in productivity growth over the last 100 years and was based on Taylor's theories (Drucker, 1999). Examples of using Taylor's theories include the Ford assembly line, the Japanese "Quality Circle", "continuous improvement" and "just in time delivery", and Edward Demings' "total quality management" theory (Drucker , 1999). The final paragraph of Taylor's book states ''It is not a single element, but rather this whole combination, that constitutes scientific management, which can be summarized as: science, not rule of thumb. Harmony, not discord. Cooperation, not individualism. Maximum production, instead of limited production. The development of every man towards his maximum efficiency and prosperity' (Friedman, et al., 2011). Indeed, Taylor's scientific management may have been created in a different time and place, but the ideals of his last paragraph continue to be relevant today..