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Peter Ferdinand Drucker ( / ˈdrʌkər /; German: [ˈdʀʊkɐ]; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and ...
Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes to management. Scientific management is sometimes known as Taylorism after its pioneer ...
144. The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) is a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor where he laid out his views on principles of scientific management, or industrial era organization and decision theory. Taylor was an American manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and then a management consultant in his later years.
Uncertainty management theory ( UMT ), developed by Dale Brashers, addresses the concept of uncertainty management. Several theories have been developed in an attempt to define uncertainty, identify its effects and establish strategies for managing it. [ 1] Uncertainty management theory was the first theory to decline the idea that uncertainty ...
Henri Fayol. Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. [ 2] He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously.
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. The behavioral theory of the firm first appeared in the 1963 book A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert and James G. March. [ 1] The work on the behavioral theory started in 1952 when March, a political scientist, joined Carnegie Mellon University, where Cyert was an economist. [ 2]
LC Class. HD31 .B36. The Functions of the Executive is a book by Chester I. Barnard (1886–1961) that presents a "theory of cooperation and organization " and "a study of the functions and of the methods of operation of executives in formal organizations." [1] : xi–xii It was originally published in 1938; a Thirtieth Anniversary edition ...
Lyndall Fownes Urwick MC (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration. [1] [2] He wrote an influential book called The Elements of Business Administration ...