3 Management History and Practice
A great challenge faces the management thinkers of today, as great as the challenge of the late nineteenth century. It is no exaggeration to say we need to undertake a root and branch reexamination of what management is, what its purpose is, what the role of management thinkers is, and how we as management thinkers can contribute to meeting that challenge.1
Mogen Witzel, A History of Management Thought
Robert Owen
Charles Babbage
Daniel Craig McCallum
Henry Varnum Poor
Frederick W. Taylor
Scientific management
Operations research
Critical path method
Computer-aided design, computer-assisted manufacturing, and computer-implemented manufacturing
Henri Fayol’s Fourteen Principles
Human relations ...
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