Taylor Key Explained

Taylor Key
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The Taylor Key Award is one of the highest awards of the Society for Advancement of Management. This management awards is awarded annually to one or more persons for "the outstanding contribution to the advancement of the art and science of management as conceived by Frederick W. Taylor."^{[1] [2]}

The Taylor Key has been awarded in cooperation with the American Management Association.^[3]

Award winners

The award winners have been:^[4]

• 1937: George W. Barnwell,^[5] and George T. Trundle Jr.^[4]
• 1938: Asa A. Knowles,^[6] and Hugo Diemer^[4]
• 1939: Moritz A. Dittmer^[7] and William H. Gesell^[4] and
• 1940: Henry S. Dennison^[4]
• 1941: Morris L. Cooke^[8]
• 1942: King Hathaway^[8]
• 1943: Harlow S. Person^[8]
• 1944: Henry P. Kendall^[8]
• 1945: Henry P. Dutton^[8]
• 1946: Robert B. Wolf^[9]
• 1947: Harry Arthur Hopf^[10]
• 1948: Dexter S. Kimball^[4]
• 1949: Herbert C. Hoover^[4]
• 1950: Brehon B. Somervell^[11]
• 1951: No Award^[8]
• 1952: Harold F. Smiddy^[4] and Donald K. Davis^[12]
• 1954: Henning W. Prentis^[4]
• 1956: F. J. Roethlisberger^[13]
• 1958: Ralph C. Davis ; Frank Henry Neely^[14]
• 1960: John B. Joynt^[15]
• 1961: Lawrence A. Appley^[4]
• 1963: Harold B. Maynard^[16] and Lyndall F. Urwick^[17]
• 1965: Phil Carroll^[18]
• 1966: Robert S. McNamara^[19]
• 1967: Peter F. Drucker^[20]
• 1968: Nobuo Noda^[21]
• 1971. Donald C. Burnham^[22]
• 1972: John F. Mee ^[23]
• 1973: J. Allyn Taylor^[24]
• 1974: Harold Koontz^[25]
• 1980: Edward C. Schleh^[26]
• 1982: Allan H. Mogensen^[27]
• 1983: W. Edwards Deming^[3]
• 1998: Nobuo Shigenaga^[28]
• 2000: Moustafa H. Abdelsamad^[29]
• 2005: William I. Sauser, Jr.^[30]
• 2019: Edwin A. Fleishman

Other prominent winners of the Taylor Key Awards have been Don G. Mitchell, and Kaichiro Nishino.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Advanced Management, Volume 17. 1952. p. 227
2. [Moustafa H. Abdelsamad]
3. Norman L. Johnson, Samuel Kotz. Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth ..., 2011 . p. 359.
4. SAM, S.A.M. advanced management journal, 1963. p. 40
5. George W. Barnwell, Associate Professor of Economics of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology (SAM, 1963, 40).
6. Asa A. Knowles Dean, College of Business Admin. Northeastern University (SAM, 1963, 40).
7. M. A. Dittmar Asst. to Works Manager Lehn and Fink Products Corp. (SAM, 1963, 40).
8. Margaret A. Firth. Handbook of scientific and technical awards in the United States and Canada, 1900-1952. 1956. p. 364
9. Robert B. Wolf, Director of Pulp Division, Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. (SAM, 1963, 40).
10. Harry Arthur Hopf, President Hopf Institute of Management (SAM, 1963, 40).
11. Advanced Management: Quarterly Journal, Volume 15. 1950. p. 26 wrote: "General Brehon B. Somervell (right), President, Koppers Co., Inc., receiving the 1950 TAYLOR KEY AWARD from S.A.M. National President Dillard E. Bird...."
12. SAM, Advanced Management, Volume 17. 1952. p. 227, stated: "Taylor Key... was presented to Dean Donald K. David of the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University."
13. Public Personnel Association, Personnel Report, Volume 671. 1967. p. 42
14. SAM, Advanced Management, 1958. p. 142
15. Advanced Management, Volumes 25-26, 1960. p. 47, stated: "John B. Joynt (right), Vice President, Management Planning, New York Central System, receiving the Taylor Key, highest award of S.A.M., from James E. Newsome, National President."
16. Academy of Management, Business Administration in a Changing Economy, 1971. p. 136-37
17. [Edward Brech]
18. The Michigan Alumnus, Volume 72. 1965. p. 57
19. United States. Dept. of Defense, Commanders digest, Volume 2. 1966. p. 71.
20. John Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood. F. W. Taylor: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management. 2002. p. 83
21. Allen Briggs Dickerman. Training Japanese managers, 1974. p. 6. stated: "Another early leader of Japan's management movement was Nobuo Noda, Professor Emeritus of Seikei University, who in 1968 was awarded the Taylor Key..."
22. Society for Advancement of Management,S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volume 36, 1971. p. 7.
23. Indiana University Bureau of Business Research. Business horizons. 1973. p. 3 wrote: "John F. Mee is Mead Johnson Professor of Management and dean of the Division of General and Technical... is the 1972 recipient of the Taylor Key Award, given by the Society for Advancement of Management."
24. S.A.M. advanced management journal, Volume 38. 1973. p. 68. stated: The Society's coveted Taylor Key Award was presented to J. Allyn Taylor, Chairman of Canada Trust and The Huron & Erie Mortgage Corporation..."
25. Harold Koontz, Heinz Weihrich. Essentials of Management: An International, Innovation, and ... 2015. p. 9
26. The University, Business News, Nr. 44-61; Nr. 63-71; Nrr 73, 1974-1980,p. 25, stated: "Edward C. Schieh, BBA 1937, best known for his concept of results management, received the Taylor Key Award at the 1980 Society for Advancement of Management National Conference."
27. Society for Advancement of Management, S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volumes 47-48. 1982. p. 33
28. S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, 1998. p. 1
29. Matrix: The Magazine for Leaders in Higher Education, Vol. 1, No. 2. September 2000, wrote: "Moustafa H. Abdelsamad, dean of the College of Business at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas received the 2000 Taylor Key Award..."
30. [Moustafa H. Abdelsamad]