Henry Laurence Gantt

Henry Laurence Gantt (May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for developing the Gantt chart in the 1910s.


Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and Interstate highway system and continue to be an important tool in project management and programme management.






Henry Gantt's legacy to project management is the following:

• The Gantt chart: Still accepted as an important management tool today, it provides a graphic schedule for the planning and controlling of work, and recording progress towards stages of a project. The chart has a modern variation, Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT).
• Industrial Efficiency: Industrial efficiency can only be produced by the application of scientific analysis to all aspects of the work in progress. The industrial management role is to improve the system by eliminating chance and accidents.
• The Task And Bonus System: He linked the bonus paid to managers to how well they taught their employees to improve performance.
• The social responsibility of business: He believed that businesses have obligations to the welfare of the society in which they operate.

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