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."Advanced Management, Volume 17. 1952. p. 227Moustafa H. Abdelsamad (ed.), S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volume 53. 1988. p. 40.
The Taylor Key has been awarded in cooperation with the American Management Association.Norman L. Johnson, Samuel Kotz. Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth ..., 2011 . p. 359.
Award winners The award winners have been:SAM, S.A.M. advanced management journal, 1963. p. 40
1937: George W. Barnwell,George W. Barnwell, Associate Professor of Economics of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology (SAM, 1963, 40). and George T. Trundle Jr. 1938: Asa A. Knowles,Asa A. Knowles Dean, College of Business Admin. Northeastern University (SAM, 1963, 40). and Hugo Diemer 1939: Moritz A. DittmerM. A. Dittmar Asst. to Works Manager Lehn and Fink Products Corp. (SAM, 1963, 40). and William H. Gesell and 1940: Henry S. Dennison 1941: Morris L. CookeMargaret A. Firth. Handbook of scientific and technical awards in the United States and Canada, 1900-1952. 1956. p. 364 1942: King Hathaway 1943: Harlow S. Person 1944: Henry P. Kendall 1945: Henry P. Dutton 1946: Robert B. WolfRobert B. Wolf, Director of Pulp Division, Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. (SAM, 1963, 40). 1947: Harry Arthur HopfHarry Arthur Hopf, President Hopf Institute of Management (SAM, 1963, 40). 1948: Dexter S. Kimball 1949: Herbert C. Hoover 1950: Brehon B. SomervellAdvanced 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...." 1951: No Award 1952: Harold F. Smiddy and Donald K. DavisSAM, 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." 1954: Henning W. Prentis 1956: F. J. RoethlisbergerPublic Personnel Association, Personnel Report, Volume 671. 1967. p. 42 1958: Ralph C. Davis ; Frank Henry NeelySAM, Advanced Management, 1958. p. 142 1960: John B. JoyntAdvanced 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." 1961: Lawrence A. Appley 1963: Harold B. MaynardAcademy of Management, Business Administration in a Changing Economy, 1971. p. 136-37 and Lyndall F. UrwickEdward Brech et al. Lyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer: A Biography. p. 173 1965: Phil CarrollThe Michigan Alumnus, Volume 72. 1965. p. 57 1966: Robert S. McNamaraUnited States. Dept. of Defense, Commanders digest, Volume 2. 1966. p. 71. 1967: Peter F. DruckerJohn Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood. F. W. Taylor: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management. 2002. p. 83 1968: Nobuo NodaAllen 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..." 1971. Donald C. BurnhamSociety for Advancement of Management,S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volume 36, 1971. p. 7. 1972: John F. Mee 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." 1973: J. Allyn TaylorS.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..." 1974: Harold KoontzHarold Koontz, Heinz Weihrich. Essentials of Management: An International, Innovation, and ... 2015. p. 9 1980: Edward C. SchlehThe 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." 1982: Allan H. MogensenSociety for Advancement of Management, S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volumes 47-48. 1982. p. 33 1983: W. Edwards Deming 1998: Nobuo ShigenagaS.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, 1998. p. 1 2000: Moustafa H. AbdelsamadMatrix: 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..." 2005: William I. Sauser, Jr.Moustafa H. Abdelsamad (ed.) SAM Advanced Management Journal. 03/22/2003 2019: Edwin A. Fleishman
Other prominent winners of the Taylor Key Awards have been Don G. Mitchell, and Kaichiro Nishino.
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