Chapter 4. An Overview of Ten Management and Organizational Theorists
What is called for is a complete mental revolution on the part of workers and on the part of managers, such that both take their eyes off the division of profit and together turn toward increasing the size of the profit, until it becomes so large that it is unnecessary to quarrel over how it shall be divided.[5]
The above statement is paraphrased from one of the ten management and organizational theorists who will be discussed in this article. Although the comment may sound idealistic, even humanistic, it is derived from the writing of Frederick Taylor, the father of "scientific management" and a man whom one would never describe as a "humanist" after even a casual inspection ...
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