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Management History
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Henri Fayol
Henri Fayol identified the 14 principles that he believed essential to increase the efficiency in the management process (George, Jones 46-9). -
Invention of America's Past Time
Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York (PBS). -
Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett is considered to be the mother of management. She pointed out that management often overlooks the multitude of ways in which employees can contribute to the organization when managers allow time to participate and exercise initiative in their everyday work lives (George, Jones 51). -
National League Baseball
The National League is established, with William Hulbert as president. Today National League Baseball consists of 15 teams, and the president is Bill Giles (PBS). -
Frederick W. Taylor
Frederick W. Taylor is best known for defining the techniques of scientific msnagement, the systematic study of relationships between people and tasks for the purpose of redesigning the work process in to increase efficiency (George, Jones, 39). -
Business Colleges
As businesses were growing business colleges became a necessity. They were built to train managers and every aspect of the business world. Today some colleges today are solely business institutions. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American Industrialist that led the enormous expansion of the American Steel Industry in the 19th century (Wikipedia). He also had a dedication to philanthropy that cause him to vow that "no one should die rich." (George, Jones, 43) -
Abraham B. Landis
Landis started career making farm machinery with his brother, quickly became an innovator of field of grinding machines. After developing the universal grinder, Abraham founded Landis Tool Co. with his brother to manufacture cylindrical grinders (Americanmachinist). -
American Locomotive Company
Nine locomotive manufacturing companies are combined in a merger to form the American Locomotive Company, ALCO (Wikipedia). -
American League Baseball
The American League of Major League Baseball is created. Today the league's president is Jackie Autry. The league consists of 15 teams (PBS). -
Ford Motor Company
Ford has been synonymous with the automotive industry. Company founder Henry Ford Sr. became known for innovation, transforming cars into commodities for the masses and his company into an American icon (Americanmachinist). -
The First Flight
The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur were the two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who created and were credited for the invention and building the worlds first successful aircraft (Wikipedia). -
Alta Weiss
Alta Weiss is the first woman to play professional baseball. In 2003 a picture book for girls was published about her "Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings". In 2004 she was inducted in Ragersfeild Hall of Fame. And in her uniform was sent to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in New York that opened in 2005 (Wikipedia). -
Management Scientific Theory
A contemporary approach to managment that focuses on the use of rigorous quantitative techniques to help managers make maximum use of organizational resources to produce goods and services. Included management styles are Quantitativem Operations, Total quality, and Management information systems (George, Jones, 55). -
General Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein proposes The General Theory of Relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation and is considered to be one of the two pillars, along with modern physics (Americantimeline). -
1920's and 1930's
Automobiles, airplanes, and the Great Depression contribute to a decline in railroad ridership and mileage (WIkipedia). -
Max Weber
Karl Emil Maximillian "Max" Weber was a german sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of sociology. Weber was also known for developing the five principles of bureacracy. Bureacracy is a formal system of an organization and administration designed to ensure efficiency and efectiveness. (George, Jones, 45) -
Human Relations Movement
The Human Relations Movement was a managemnt approach that advocates the idea that supervisors should recieve behavioral training to manage subordinates in ways that elicit their cooperation and increase their productivity (George, Jones, 52). -
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow created the hierarchy of needs because he wanted to understand the needs of individuals. In order to grow in the hierarchy the individual must satisfy the lower before climbing to the top of the pyramid (simplypsychology). -
The Hawthorne Studies
The Hawthorne effect was the finding that a manager's behavior or leadership approach can affect workers' level of performance (George, Jones, 52). -
Organizational Environmental Theory
Organizational Environmental Theory is the set of forces and conditions beyond an organizations boundaries but affect a managers ability to acquire and utilize resources (George, Jones, 56). -
The Open-Systems View
Open-Systems View is a system that takes in resource from its external environment and converts them into goods and services that are then sent back to that environment for purchase by customers (George, Jones, 56). -
Contingency Theory
The contingency theory was developed by Tom Burns and G.M Stalker in Britain and Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch in the U.S. The contingency theory is the idea that organizational structures and control systems managers choose depend on characteristcs of the external environment in which the organization operates (George,
Jones, 57). -
Douglas McGregor
Theory Y and Theory X are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor to be used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communication, and orgnaizational development (Wikipedia). -
Age Discrimination Law
Prohibits discrimination against workers over the age 40 and restricts mandatory retirement (George, 136).
