HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT AND ITS LEGACY FOR TODAY’S WORLD by J. David Hunger‚ Ph.D. for Management 370 College of Business Iowa State University (8/18/2005) HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT AND ITS LEGACY FOR TODAY’S WORLD But I’m coming to believe that all of us are ghosts .... It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers or fathers. It’s also the shadows of dead ideas and opinions and convictions. They’re no longer alive‚ but they grip
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Evolution of Management Thoughts (Managerial Function) Management is studied in business academics since earlier times and it is considered as an integral part to understand business operations. People have been changing and redesigning organizations for centuries. Though the 20th century is noticeable in history as an ’Era of scientific management’‚ still it does not indicate that management tactics were not used in yester years. Many studies indicated that Management theory evolved with "scientific"
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MANAGEMENT THOUGHTS AND THEORIES The industrial revolution‚ which began in Europe in mid-1700s‚ was the starting point for the development of management concepts and theories. PRECLASSICAL CONTRIBUTORS TO MANAGENENT THOUGHT Name Period Contribution Robert Owen 1771- 1858 Proposed legislative reforms to improve working conditions of labor Charles Babbage 1792-1871 Advocated the concept of division of labor’; devised a profit-sharing plan which led to the modern-day Scanlon Plan Andrew
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The industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth century‚ which began in Britain and later spread worldwide‚ marked a substantial turning point in the way in which society exists and how people earned a living. Prior to the industrial revolution it is estimated that between 80-90 per cent of the population lived in rural areas where small scale subsistence farming was the primary economic activity. Skilled craftsmen such as shoemakers usually worked from home‚ creating the entire product
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goods and services to others while operating at a profit’ (Nickels‚ McHugh and M H h 2010 p. G 14) d McHugh 2010‚ G-14). 3 1 http://images.google.com/imgres?q=henry+fayol&hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=L07_nJsWisbAAM:&imgrefurl=http://mariaavilla 4zKAcE9kM&w=131&h=173&ei=rrUvTvP0BJGmizar.blogspot.com/2008/09/henry-fayol-vs-max-weber.html&docid=gigzs4 sAOJ9Lkd&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=287&vpy=150&dur=2276&hovh=138&h
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previous ones. Taylor’s Theory of Scientific Management‚ U.S.A Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) "The Father of Scientific Management". Scientific Management theory arose from the need to increase productivity in the U.S.A. especially‚ where skilled labor was in short supply at the beginning of the twentieth century. The only way to expand productivity was to raise the efficiency of workers. Taylor devised four principles for scientific management theory‚ which were: 1. The development
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‚ John Wiley & Sons‚ Hoboken‚ NJ. Contents Babbage‚ Charles (1792–1871) 2 Barnard‚ Chester Irving (1886–1961) 4 Fayol‚ Jules Henri (1841–1925) 9 Follett‚ Mary Parker (1868–1933) 18 Lewin‚ Kurt T. (1890–1947) 24 Mayo‚ George Elton (1880–1949) 25 McCallum‚ Daniel Craig (1815–1878) 29 Poor‚ Henry Varnum (1812–1905) 29 Taylor‚ Frederick Winslow (1856–1915) 31 Weber‚ Max (1864–1920) 36 1 Babbage‚ Charles (1792–1871) (pp.66-69) To call Charles Babbage an irascible genius is to pay
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organising‚ controlling‚ influencing. Classical Management theorists sought to connect these functions to growing an organisation’s efficiency and productivity. The most notable contributors to classical management thinking‚ namely Fredrick Taylor‚ Henri Fayol and Max Weber might have cloaked their ideas in different language and applied diverse nomenclature‚ but they were by all means taking different buses to a similar destination. Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory‚ Fayol’s Theory of Management and
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profession‚ Henry Fayol. He is known as the father of management or the founder of the classical management. It is not because he was first to investigate managerial behaviour‚ but because he was the first to systematize it. He was contemporary to Taylor. Taylor was basically concerned with organizational fucntions‚ whereas Fayol was interested in the total organization. It may be noted that Taylor is known as the father of scientific management‚ i.e. supervisory or lower management‚ while Fayol is recognized
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regulating. Formalization provides stable expectation‚ which is a precond ition to rationality. Selected schools The author related rational system perspectives to four schools of organizatio nal theories. Taylor’s Scientific Management (1911) Taylor Scientifically analyzed tasks performed by individual workers and disco vered the best procedure that would produce the maximum output with the minimu m input of resources. His attempts (to rationalize labor at level of the indiv idual worker )led
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