Contemporary Management
Practices
The development of Management Theories
(A)
The Pre-Modern Era
- Adam Smith (Division of Labour)
- Industrial Revolution in Britain
(B)
Classical Contributions
- Classical Approach to Management
- Frederick Taylor (Scientific Management)
- Therbligs (by Gilbreths)
- Gnatt Chart (by Henry Gnatt for Scheduling)
- General Administrative Theorists (by Henri Fayol and Max Weber) -
- Esprit de corps
(C)
Human Resources Approach
- Robert Owen (A Utopian Socialist)
- Hugo Munsterberg (Industrial Psychology)
- Mary Parker Follet (Group Vs Individualism)
- Chester Barnard (Social relationship)
- Elton Mayo (Hawthorne Effect) - Group Standards, Sentiments and Security
- Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
- Abraham Maslow (Hierarchy of Needs)
- Douglas McGregor (Theory X and Y)
(D)
The Quantitative Approach - Operations Research (OR) - Solutions to Military Problems after the WWII
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Robert McNamara & - Charles Tex Thornton (Ford Motor Company by quantitative methods)
(D)
Process Approach
- The Process Approach
(By Harold Koontz)
(E)
Systems Approach
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Systems Approach to Managment
(Open Vs Closed System)
(F)
Contingency Approach
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Contingency Approach to Management
Experiment : Elton Mayo (Hawthorne Studies)
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