Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Gilbreth, Inc. was an early management consulting firm founded by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. and wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth. It was primarily an operation of the two founders.The firm's methodlogy focused on efficiency through a \"Time and Motion\" approach, better known as motion studies. Its analysis and reports included reduction of effort and fatigue, with precursors to ergonomics. The resulting recommendations focused on \"one best way,\" an approach at odds with the later quality improvement movement. The Gilbreth approach also diverged from Taylorism, another early business/work efficiency model, primarily in its consideration of human factors.Gilbreth Inc.'s innovations were largely due to the marriage of engineering and industrial psychology reflected from the marriage of its founders, who were respective experts in these fields.The firm was founded in 1911 in Providence, Rhode Island, and later moved to Montclair, New Jersey. Gilbreth, Inc. survived the death of Frank Gilbreth in 1924, and continued until Lillian Gilbreth's retirement in the 1960s."@en }
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- Gilbreth,_Inc. abstract "Gilbreth, Inc. was an early management consulting firm founded by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. and wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth. It was primarily an operation of the two founders.The firm's methodlogy focused on efficiency through a \"Time and Motion\" approach, better known as motion studies. Its analysis and reports included reduction of effort and fatigue, with precursors to ergonomics. The resulting recommendations focused on \"one best way,\" an approach at odds with the later quality improvement movement. The Gilbreth approach also diverged from Taylorism, another early business/work efficiency model, primarily in its consideration of human factors.Gilbreth Inc.'s innovations were largely due to the marriage of engineering and industrial psychology reflected from the marriage of its founders, who were respective experts in these fields.The firm was founded in 1911 in Providence, Rhode Island, and later moved to Montclair, New Jersey. Gilbreth, Inc. survived the death of Frank Gilbreth in 1924, and continued until Lillian Gilbreth's retirement in the 1960s.".