Biography Lilian Gilbret

After graduating from school, he got a job as a mason, while studying the construction business in order to make the process as hard as possible and reduce the loss of working time. Soon, the authorities noticed the works of the young man and raised him to the construction contractor. Around the same time, an extremely active builder began to give lectures at the University of Perdue, without having a higher education.

At the age of 27, Gilbret became the chief manager of the construction company, where he once worked as part. In May, she graduated from school with honors. Gilbret became a graduate of the University of California in M, with a bachelor's degree in English literature. In m, she received a master's degree in the field of literature at the University of California. In m, having graduated from the University of Brown, she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

In the year, she became the 1st woman-member of the American Society of Mechanics Engineers. In the year, she received a medal of the American Society of Builders Society. The couple has been married since October. 12 children were born in their family. Spouses began to study the scientific principles of management. Frank was devoted to the technical aspects of the effectiveness of the employee, while Lilian was associated with the human aspects of the management.

Lilian and Frank Gilbert were supporters of the movement of scientific management. At the beginning of his activity, Frank Gilbert organized a construction management system, consisting of the following parts: 1. Lesson system. This is a system of accounting, developed to help the contractor in the calculation of costs for a week of work. Specific system.

This system describes the control of workers, the need to conduct competitions in the implementation of a specific task between groups of workers for a more quick completion of work. Mason's system. She was technical. The goal is the elimination of unproductive work. Gilbert proposed the best brick laying system, created on the basis of studying movements. He focused on saving efforts, and not on the speed of execution.

After meeting with Frederick Taylor M year, Frank Gilbert compiled a list of 17 main movements of the worker. He first began to use a movie camera in conducting industrial research. Lilian and Frank focused on the timing, that is, on the analysis of the movement of the worker’s hands when performing work. They, observing the workers during work, tried to determine which manual processes are the most effective.

In case of timing, the factor in the effectiveness of operations is the time spent on their implementation. Due to the fact that the movie camera takes the pictures of the scannerovo, it was possible to calculate the number of personnel spent on photographing the movements of the worker, and then say exactly how much time it took for each of them. In the future, the spouses turned their experiments with a movie camera into a whole science of timing.

So, the frame, which was used during the measurement, began to be called "Treblig" reading their surname from the end. A large study conducted by Lilian and Frank Gilbert showed that the main reason for the fatigue of workers was not monotony, but a lack of interest in the worker. Lilian Gilbert believed that successful management was based on a person, not at work. She described 3 historical control styles: traditional, transition, scientific.

In her opinion, psychologists of that time studied the crowd, paying little attention to personality. In the year, a group of experts led by Frank Gilbert organized a social management support society. His hand includes the profession of a nurse who gives surgical instruments to the surgeon during the operation, it was he, as scientists say, developed methods that widespread in the armies of all countries of the world and consisting in training young soldiers to quickly collect and disassemble weapons with blindfolded eyes or in complete darkness.

After the death of her husband, Lilian began to give lectures at M at the University of Perdue, where Frank had previously taught. She became a full -fledged professor of the university, breaking between faculties of industrial construction, industrial psychology, housekeeping and managing to work in the dean’s office, where she advised women to build a career. She left the peresu at the age of 86 Gilbret became a resident, a resident of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in M.

During the Second World War, she was an adviser to several government groups, sharing knowledge in the field of education and labor, including the US Navy, GILBRET, at 94 years of life, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.