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Frederick Taylor
Frederick Taylor focused his research on increasing production. He focused on everything from job specialization to pay incentives. -
John Dewey
John Dewey created the rational planning model. This model allowed for individuals to solve problems by finding the root cause of such problem. -
Max Weber
Max Weber created the Bureaucracy Theory. This theory focused on organizations must be ran with clearly identified hierarchy of authority. Also in this theory, he established that all organizations should have rules that help govern all individuals. -
Elton Mayo
Elton Mayo is most well known for the Hawthorne Plant studies. These studies occurred in a telephone company plant. Women were separated from the original group. While separated, the women were observed to see how their production was influenced by changes in working conditions. -
Chester Barnard
Chester Barnard is most well know for his Cooperative System. His system consisted of both a top down component, as well as a bottom up component to make the system successful. -
Renis Likert
Likert determined that supervisors are most successful when they focus on the human aspects of their employees' problems and build effective work groups. -
Abraham Moslow
Abraham Moslow is most known for what became known as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This paper, which was changed to a chart showed what was most important to human individuals. -
Philip Selznick
Selznick researched on Institutionalism. His most famous study was on the Tennessee Valley Authority. He determined that organizational goals change based off of internal and eternal pressures and needs. -
Frederick Herzberg
Herzberg is most known for his study on Hygienic-Motivators. This study helped identify the top 5 satisfiers and "dissatisfiers" among employees. This study identified achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility and advancement was the top motivators for employees. -
Path-Goal Contingency Model
This model identified that the leader behavior must be established based off the characteristics and environmental factors of an organization. -
Fiedler's Contingency Theory
Fiedler identified that the type of leadership behaviors needed could be identified by determining the strength of the following three organizational contingencies: Leader-Member Relations, Task Structure, and Leader Position Power. -
LMX Theory
George Graen established the idea that organization is about three interactive elements: leaders, followers, and relationships.
