History of management
July 1 st
, 1908: The Assembly Line
Henry Ford successfully lowered the price of Model T to 825 dollars. It was such revolutionary that
over 10,000 cars were sold, thanks to the birth of the assembly line which changed the landscape
of production line.
January 1 st
, 1911: Taylorism: Scientific Management
One of the earliest of these theorists was Frederick Winslow Taylor. He started the Scientific
Management movement, and he and his associates were the first people to study the work
process scientifically. They studied how work was performed, and they looked at how this affected
worker productivity. Taylor's philosophy focused on the belief that making people work as hard as
they could was not as efficient as optimizing the way the work was done.
January 1 st
, 1916: Fayol's Principles
Henri Fayol came up with 14 principles to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of management
process. Though he came up with the principles in the early 20th century, it is still considered to be
a very powerful tool in management practices.
April 24 th
, 1924: Prophet of Management
Mary Parker Follett has been called the woman who invented management. Her early influence on
modern management theory has been so pervasive. The principles are
1. - Conflict resolution through integration 2. Genuine power is not "coercive but coactive 3. True
leaders create group power, rather than expressing perfivesonal power
January 22 nd
, 1930: Bureaucratic Theory
Max Weber said that bureaucracy is the most efficient form of organization. The organization has a
well-defined line of authority. It has clear rules and regulations which are strictly followed. Three
types of power in an organization are as follows:
1. Traditional Power
2. Charistmatic Power
3. Bureaucratic Power or Legal Power
January 1 st
, 1932: The Hawthorne Studies
Elton Mayo becomes the first person to realize that there is also behavioral management and that
there are not only physical hazards in the work place but also psychological factors as well.
