Henry Laurence Gantt
Henry Laurence Gantt (born May 20, 1861 in Calvert County , Maryland , † November 23, 1919 in Montclair , New Jersey ) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant. He graduated from McDonogh School and Johns Hopkins College and initially worked as a teacher and designer.
Gantt's parents were Virgil Gantt and Mary Jane Steuart. The father Virgil Gantt was originally a plantation owner and ran a boarding house after the civil war . Henry Gantt married Mary Eliza Snow in 1899.
From 1887 to 1893 Gantt worked with Frederick Winslow Taylor and is considered one of the co-founders of Scientific Management . In 1910 he developed the Gantt diagram , which is used, among other things, in project management to display the project status and in machine occupancy and order sequence planning.
Works
- Gantt, Henry L., A graphical daily balance in manufacture, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Volume XXIV, pages 1322-1336, 1903.
- Gantt, Henry L., Work, wages, and profits; their influence on the cost of living The Engineering Magazine, New York. (1910) Reprinted by Hive Publishing Company, Easton, Maryland, 1973.
- Gantt, Henry L., Industrial leadership . Yale University Press (1916)
- Gantt, Henry L., Organizing for Work, Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, New York, 1919. Reprinted by Hive Publishing Company, Easton, Maryland, 1973.
literature
- William Kent: Investigating an Industry: A Scientific Diagnosis of the Diseases of Management . Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons; New York (1913) With an Introduction by Henry Laurance Gantt
- Wallace Clark: The Gantt chart . Publisher: The Ronald press company New York 1922 Appendix A: Frank W. Trabold: “How a Manager Uses Gantt Charts” Appendix B: Walter N. Polakov: “The Measurement of Human Work”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive of the New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20616F73B55157A93C4AB178AD95F4D8185F9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gantt, Henry Laurence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mechanical engineer and business consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calvert County , Maryland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1919 |
| Place of death | Montclair , New Jersey |