Sanford E. Thompson

Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1867–1949) was an American engineer and consultant to the U.S. government and private sector.

He is considered one of the key figures of the American scientific management movement, which emerged in the Progressive Era.

[2] To accompany Taylor's Harvard College lectures, Thompson delivered an advanced course on time studies.

[3] With Taylor, he co-wrote Concrete Costs (1912),[4] a goal of which was to distil different kinds of manual labor into comparable Unit Times data.

[5] Years later, Lyndall Urwick wrote of Thompson that 'To him belongs the credit for perfecting the "tool" of management, and to him is attributed the invention of the decimal-dial stop-watch.