Evolution of Management Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-61303-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 1552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3175 g

Reihe: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

Because it is difficult—if not impossible—to understand contemporary management theory and practice without an appreciation of its historical heritage, this new one-stop reference resource from Routledge allows students and researchers readily to access the subject’s major works to enable a full and contextualized comprehension of the evolution of business and management thought.

The four-volume collection opens with a selection of readings (‘Beginnings’) that set the stage for the advent of modern management. The materials assembled in the succeeding sections examine and explore the writings and lives of Frederick W. Taylor (generally credited as the founding father of scientific management) and the other individuals who were central figures in the development of management thought as an independent, scientific discipline.

The gathered selections are drawn from a body of literature that emerged in the late 1880s and continued through the 1970s. They tell the story of management thought in its formative and post-partum stages. As such, the collection’s editor avers, ‘they establish a historical baseline for appreciating the continuing development of management theory across time; provide a historical perspective for understanding the present state of management theory; institute an intellectual baseline for appreciating future developments in management theory; create a historical foundation to aid in framing questions for the teaching, research, and practice of management; and provide a conceptual framework for building and integrating the field of management’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bedeian, Arthur G.

Bedeian, Arthur

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Beginnings

Part 2: Frederick W. Taylor and Scientific Management

Part 3: The Gilbreths

Part 4: Scientific Management—Selected Major Players

Part 5: Taylorism Worldwide

Part 6: The Beginnings of Industrial Psychology

Part 7: Henri Fayol; Max Weber; Luther H. Gulick

Part 8: The Hawthorne Studies

Part 9: Mary P. Follett

Part 10: Lyndall F. Urwick

Part 11: Chester I. Barnard

Part 12: The Beginnings of Industrial Sociology

Part 13: Early Leadership Theory

Part 14: Early Motivation Theory

Part 15: The Michigan, Ohio State and Illinois Leadership Studies

Part 16: Closing Perspective