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1954-Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory is published in his book Motivation and Personality. This provides a framework for gaining employees' commitment. -
1954-Leadership/Management
Peter Drucker writes The Practice of Management and introduces the five basic roles of managers:
Setting Objectives and Planning
Organizing the Group
Motivating and Communicating
Measuring Performance
Developing People (including himself or herself) -
1959 - Hygiene and Motivational Factors
Frederick Herzberg developed a list of factors that are closely based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, except it is more closely related to work. Hygiene factors must be present in the job before motivators can be used to stimulate the workers. -
1960 - Theory X and Theory Y
Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y principles influence the design and implementation of personnel policies and practices. -
1964 - Management Grid
Robert Blake and Jane Mouton develop a management model that conceptualizes management styles and relations. Their grid uses two axes: "concern for people" is plotted using the vertical axis and "concern for task" is along the horizontal axis. The notion that just two dimensions can describe a managerial behavior has the attraction of simplicity. -
Late 1960s - Action Learning
An Unheralded British academic, Reginald W. Revans was invited to try out his theories in Belgium — Action Learning — it leads to an upturn in Belgian's economy. -
1978 - Performance Technology
Tom Gilbert publishes Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance. It describes the behavioral-engineering model that became the bible of performance technology. -
1978 - Excellence
McKinsey's John Larson asks his colleague, Tom Peters, to step in at the last minute and make a presentation that leads to In Search of Excellence. Thus, Tom Peters spawns the birth of the “Management Guru Business.” -
1990 - Learning Organization
Peter Senge popularized the Learning Organization in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. He describes the organization as an organism with the capacity to enhance its capabilities and shape its own future. -
1995 - Ethics
On December 11, 1995, a fire burned most of Malden Mills to the ground and put 3,000 people out of work. Most of the 3,000 thought they were out of work permanently. CEO Aaron Feuerstein says, “This is not the end” — he spent millions keeping all 3,000 employees on the payroll with full benefits for 3 months until he could get another factory up and running. Why? He answers, “The fundamental difference is that I consider our workers an asset, not an expense.” Also, see Ethos and Leadership. -
Business Process Management (BPM) - 2000
This is actually a slow advance in process management that has the following roots:
Record Management
Workflow - 1970
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) - 1990
Business Process Management (BPM) - 2000 -
Drive Theory (Motivation) - 2009
While the concept of Drive in motivational theories has been around in since the early 1900s, and was researched in depth by Edward L. Deci, Daniel Pink popularized the concept with his book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
