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Andrew Carnegie
The New Indusstrial Company. Carnegie was said to increse his profitability by riding on the backs of his workers. He bought stock and sold it to create the Carnegie Steel Company. His main goal was to increase production. He increased work days from 10 hours to 12 hours and had six day work weeks. He also paid is workers the lowest amount that he could. The workers worked in horrible conditions and he also thwarted any attempt to unionize. (Jones&George, 2003) -
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Henri Fayol
He worked at the same time as Weber. He created 14 principles of management. Fayol was the CEO of Comambault Mining. Fayol's principles are the stepping stones for modern management theory. (Jones&George, 2003) -
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Frederick W. Taylor
Thought of as the father of the scienific management theory. He wanted a way to compensate workers for their hardwork. He also wanted their to be an increase in worker perfomance and business production. (Feiss, 1922) -
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Max Weber
Theory of Bureaucracy. This theory had five principles; authority, position, extent of authority, heirarchicy of authority, and system of rules. He wanted to ensure effectiveness witin the company based on organization. (Jones&George, 2003) -
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Mary Parker Follett
Follett can be considered the mother of management. Her work had a very radical nature and was unappreciated until recently. She worked as a social worker. She wanted management to work with their workers and not over them. (Mary Parker Follett, 2013). -
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Scientfic Management Theory
How people and their taks relate with one another. The purpose was to increase efficiency and to redesign the work process. This concept has guided much of the evolution of how management works. (Jones&George,2003) -
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Administrative Management Theory
The idea of creating high efficiency and effectiveness through stucture and control. Two main people where involved in coming up with this theory, Max Weber and Henri Fayol. ( Jones&George, 2003) -
The Principles of Scientific Management
Taylor's publishement about the Scientific Management Theory. In this article he suggested the simplifying of jobs would increase job productivity.He also had the idea that managers and workers needed to cooperate.He also talked about fair pay and the idea of bonuses in his paper. (Frederick Taylor) -
Ford's assembly line
Henry Ford was the first person to have an assembly line in his warehouse. He was also the inventor. The assembly line took production time down from 12 hours to two and a half. (Ford's assembling line starts rolling). -
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Behavioral Management Theory
The theory of how managers should interact with their employees to encourage motivation and convince them to perform at higher levels. The theory wanted to help organizations achieve their goals. (Jone&George, 2003) -
Hewlett Packard
This business was created in 1938 and had a much more people orientated aspect then many businesses had around this time. The creators insisted on being called by their first name, Bill and Dave. They followed a Theory Y approach to management. There way of running things became coined as the "HP Way". They treated their workers as equals and gave them free-time to work on their own projects. (Jones&George, 2003). -
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Management Science Theory
This theory uses quantitative techniques to help managers maximize their organizations resources in order to produce goods and services. There are four different types of management within this theory: quantitative, operations, total quality management and management information systems. (Jones&George,2003) -
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
This is Max Weber's book that includes is theory on authority. The idea of authority was important in Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy. There are three types of authority according to Weber, rational-legal authority, traditional authority, and charismatic authority. (Weber, 1947) -
General and Industrial Management
This is the publicatin that outlines Fayol's work. It details the 14 principles of management and also the five elements of management. The elements of management are: planning, organizing, command, coordination, and control. (Carter, 1986) -
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Organizational Environment Theory
This theory looks more at the relationship with the environment then at how the managers effect behavior within the organization. The theory looks at the manager's ability to acquire and utilize resources. (Jones&George,2003) -
Open System
This is a sysem that takes in rseources, makes that resource into something that a consumer wants to buy and then sends the finished producet back into the public for consumption. The oppposite of and open system is a closed system. A closed system is not affected by the external environment. (Jones&George, 2003). -
Contingency Theory
This theory was developed by Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker in Britain and in the U.S. by Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch. The theory states that the way that managers choose a control system is dependant of the external environment that they organization operates in. (Jones&George, 2003) -
Theory X and Theory Y
Two contradictory theories of how workers act. Theory X says that the average employee is lazy, dislikes work, and tries to do as little as possible. Theory Y says that employees are not lazy and if the employee is given the chance they will do whats good for the company. (Jones&George, 2003) -
Hawthorne Studies
This is a publication based on the studies ran by Follett. The study was suppposed to determine proper lighting conditions for workers but instead found the Hawthorne Effect. This effect is where workers pefrom their jobs better when they are being watched regardless of lighting conditions. (Machol, 1975) -
Management Pracitce and Productivity
This is a reasearch paper about how management performs now. They scored companies on a three point scale, good, average and poor. The researchers found that a variety of things could help a companies management go from poor to good, this included the companies competitve market and the flexibility of the local labor market.(Bloom, Dorgan, Dowdy, Reene, 2007
