Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-366) and index.
Contents
Frederick Winslow Taylor: the father of scientific management -- Mary Parker Follett: the mother of postscientific management -- Chester Barnard: the philosopher king of American management -- Fritz Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo: two creative misfits who invented "human relations" (and put the Harvard Business School on the map) -- Robert S. McNamara: the "bean counters" usher in a new era of scientific management -- Abraham Maslow and Douglas McGregor: from human relations to the frontiers of system dynamics -- W. Edwards Deming: the prophets of the quality movement and the learning organization -- Herbert A. Simon: the needle and the haystack -- Alfred Du Pont Chandler and Alfred Sloan: the historian and the CEO -- Peter F. Drucker: the big idea man.