GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scientific Management, Job Design, Protestant Work Ethic

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Horatio Morgan

Document Summary

Management has been going on for a very long time as early as: 5000 bc: the magnificent pyramids in egypt reflect exceptional organizational and administrative skills. 3000 bc: sumerian priests maintained written records of business transactions and management practices in the city of ur, babylon (now iraq). The organizational and administrative skills of the early egyptians and record keeping skills of the sumerian priests are impressive but. Management as a science and the rise of professional managers are recent developments. It is not surprising that european scholars including max weber would play a major role in the development of modern management and the. American scholar frederick taylor would play a pioneering role in the development of management as a science given the rise of large factories in europe and public listed rail transportation companies in the. The three branches of the classical approach to management are scientific management, administrative principles, and bureaucratic organization.