Prelims: Theories of Management

"Working with and 

through people to 

accomplish a

 common mission"

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-Manusagere-

  FUNCTIONSPlanningOrganizingDirectingControlling

                  

                                                                      THEORIES________________________________________________________

• Scientific Management

- first orderly efforts to examine the

 functioning complex organizations.

- apply the scientific method of the cause and effect analysis to the examination of business enterprises.

• Henri Fayol

- first introduced the concept that management

 should be an orderly process of task and duties.

• Frederick Taylor

-father of scientific management

-broke each task into segments

• Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Gilbreth

- perfected Taylor's motion of study method

and development method analysis.

• Mary Parker Follett

-management is essentially coordination.

• Lyndall Urwick

- introduced the role of management consultant. 

- attempted to classify and codify the 

work done on management theories.