Originally named The Society to Promote The Science of Management,[1] the Taylor Society was initiated in 1911 at the New York Athletic Club by followers of Frederick W. Taylor, including Carl G. Barth, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, James Mapes Dodge, Frank Gilbreth, H.K.

Hathaway, Robert T. Kent, Conrad Lauer (for Charles Day) and Wilfred Lewis.

[2] Prominent interwar members included Henri Le Châtelier, Richard A. Feiss, Henry Gantt, Lillian Gilbreth, Mary van Kleeck, William Leffingwell, Harlow S. Person, Hans Renold, Oliver Sheldon, Sanford E. Thompson and Lyndall Urwick.

[18] The Society was largely responsible for the research and publication of the first biography of Frederick Wilson Taylor by Frank Copley, published in 1923.

[19][20] The Taylor Society were involved in the Committee on American Participation to the Prague International Management Congress in 1924.

[25] Soon after the dissolution of the Taylor Society, its long-standing secretary Harlow S. Person responded to the Charles Bedaux & Duke of Windsor November 1937 fiasco by stating that the Taylor System, which required much management restructuring, and the Bedaux System, which could be applied 'as is', were 'poles apart'.