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Industrial Revolution

  • Scientific Management

    Scientific Management

    This changed the industry of factories an production lines by making the workers on the line keep a steady, solid pace. This would allow the factory to have a faster, and more constant production rate.
  • The Hawthorne Studies

    The Hawthorne Studies

    The Hawthorne studies showed that people’s work performance is strongly dependent on social issues and job satisfaction, and that good working conditions are generally less important in improving employee productivity than meeting individuals’ need and desire to belong to a group and be included in decision making and work. This allowed the employer adjust their workers work environment, in order to make the workers feel as if they are truly a part of something.
  • Hierarchy Of Needs

    Hierarchy Of Needs

    Hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation which states that five categories of human needs dictate an individual's behavior. The needs are physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, and esteem needs.
  • Leadership/Management

    Leadership/Management

    The 5 basics roles of a manger are as listed:
    Setting Objectives and Planning
    Organizing the Group
    Motivating and Communicating
    Measuring Performance
    Developing People (including himself or herself)
  • Hygiene an Motivational Factors

    Hygiene an Motivational Factors

    Frederick Herzberg developed a list of factors that is related to Hierarchy Of Needs, but is more related to work. Hygiene factors must be present in the job before motivators can be used to stimulate the workers in their environment.
  • Theory X an Y

    Theory X an Y

    Theory X is a motivational theory, which involves high supervision and control over the subordinates, and the greater degree of centralization. Theory Y, is an advanced theory, where it is assumed that the workers are self-directed and self-motivated, for growth and development and takes active part in decision making.
  • Management Grid

    Management Grid

    The grid contains five different leadership styles based on the concern for people and the concern for production. Their grid uses two axes: "concern for people" is plotted using the vertical axis and "concern for task" is along the horizontal axis.
  • Learning Organization

    Learning Organization

    A learning organization is any organization (e.g. school, business, government agency) that understands itself as a complex, organic system that has a vision and purpose. It uses feedback systems and alignment mechanisms to achieve its goals. Peter Senge called for five disciplines to become a learning organization: System, Thinking ,Personal Mastery, Mental Models, Shared Vision and Team Learning.
  • Business Process Management

    Business Process Management

    This is actually a slow advance in process management that has the following roots. It's a discipline that uses various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve and optimize business processes. A business process coordinates the behavior of people, systems, information and things to produce business outcomes in support of a business strategy.
  • Drive Theory (4 Drive Theory)

    Drive Theory (4 Drive Theory)

    We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring, bonding, learning, and defending. This theory says that the more a induvial wants something, the more drive they will have to go out an get it.