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Max Webber developed the principles of bureaucracy to help Germany manage its growing industrial enterprises while trying to become a work power. (Jones, 2014)
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Henry ford’s team of production managers began the development of the moving conveyor belt which changed manufacturing practices forever (Jones, 2014).
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Henri Fayol list of management principles which includes an emphasis on planning and budgeting, a separation of functions and a hierarchical chain of command (Kiechel III, 2012).
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Fredrick Taylor’s system of scientific management had become nationally known and practiced faithfully and fully practiced in many instances (Jones, 2014).
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Henry Ford opened the Highland Park car plant in Detroit to produce the Model T Ford, and his team of manufacturing managers eliminated small-batch car production by pioneering the development of mass-production manufacturing (Jones, 2014).
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1914 Henry Ford reduced the length of the work day from nine hours to eight hours and doubled their wage from $2.50 to $5.00 an hour (Jones, 2014).
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Penned articles for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers which were progress reports on industrial management. They focused on such things as employee relations, productivity, wage plans, and work methods (Blackwell, 1999)
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Florence identified three managerial principles "proper to the hierarchical system". His third principle concerned limit of the number of subordinates that can be directly commanded by one person without specifying a number (Bedeian 1977).
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American management theorist were unaware of the contributions of Weber and Fayol because there writings had not been translated to English and published in the United States (Jones, 2014).
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in the late 1940’s theorist made a theme that focused on behavioral management. The study of how managers should personally behave to motivate employees and encourage them to perform at high levels and be committed to achieve organizational goals (Jones, 2014).
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Balderston, Karabasz and Biecht at the upper levels of authority the ratio should not exceed four to one, or five to one at the lower levels of supervision. The ratio may be much larger, say ten to one, or even fifty to one in the case of the supervision of common laborers (Bedeian 1977).
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“Twentieth Century Management Thought” by John Mee about management history contributions from the scientific managers era to post-WWII was one of the most in-depth discussions and analyses (Blackwell, 1999)
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Tom Burns and G. N. Stocker in Britain and Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence developed the contingency theory, which states that” there is no one best way to organize” (Jones, 2014).
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Daniel Katz, Robert Kahn and James Thompson looked at how an organization is affected by its external environment. The theorists viewed the organization as an open system (Jones, 2014).
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Toyota pioneered the development of lean manufacturing which is based upon the management philosophy to continuously find methods to improve the efficiency of the products produced to lower cost, lower assembly car time and increase quantity (Jones, 2014).
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Druckers book "Managing for Results" set the bar higher, arguing that businesses exsist to produce results and that managers should systematically scan thie Markets for opportunities to grow the enterprise (kiechel III, 2012)
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Japanese managers had redefined lean production making it so efficient they were producing more and better quality cars then the United States (Jones, 2014).
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Tom Peters and Bob Waterman, published In Search of Excellence. The book sold more than 6 million copies, alerting the publishing industry to the existence of a huge audience for books on managerial wisdom (Kiechel III, 2012).
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Fredrick W Taylor defined techniques of scientific management as the systematic study of relationships between people and task for the purpose of redesigning the work process to increase efficiency (Jones,2014).
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Robert Hayes and William Abernathy, delivered a scathing critique on the focus of short term financial gain by U.S. managers (Kiechel III, 2012).
