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The Pioneers

Scientific Management

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Is management an art (a skill some people are born with) or a science (an academic topic that can be taught)?
Sun Tsu
(~544 BC - ~496 BC)
Adam Smith
(1723-1790)
Robert Owen
(1771-1858)
Thomas Mason
 
Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
Alfred Marshall
(1842-1924)
BS Rowntree
(1871-1954)
Jean R Perronet
(1708-1794)
Henri Fayol
(1841-1925)
Alexander Hamilton-Church
(1755-1804)
George Elton Mayo
(1880-1949)
Charles Babbage
(1792-1871)
Mary Parker Follett
(1868-1933)
Harrington Emerson
(1853-1931)
May Smith
(1879-1968)
Frank Winslow Taylor
(1856-1915)
E T Elbourne
 
G Charter Harrison
 
Alec Rodger
 
Frank (1868-1924) & Lillian Gilbreth
(1880 - 1972)
James D Mooney
(1884-1957)
John Maurice Clark
(1884-1963)
John Munro Fraser
 
Richard Brackenbury
(1864-1956)
A C Reilly (Reilley)
 
Thomas G Rose
(1897-1963)
Abraham Maslow
(1908-1970)
Henry Laurence Gantt
(1861-1919)
Lyndall Fownes Urwick
(1895-1983)
Harold J Wheldon
 
 
 
Charles Eugene Bedaux
(1886-1944)
Edward Francis Leopold Brech
(1891-1974)
AW Willsmore
 
 
 
Russell Mackenzie Currie
(1902-1967)
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
(1909-2005)
Ralph Mosser Barnes
Douglas McGregor
(1906-1964)
Hugo Diemer
(1870-1939)
Asa Bertrand Segur
(1886-1975)
Bonnie Small
(1909-2000)
Walter Shewhart
(1891-1967)
Systems Thinking