1. Time Line of the history of managment
By Erika Castiblanco
September 2013
UMB virtual

2. Management history Time Line
Frederick Taylor decides to time each and every worker at the Midvale Steel Company. His view of the future becomes highly accurate: "In the past man was first. In the future the system will be first."
1929 –The Taylor Society publishes a revised and updated practitioner's manual: Scientific Management in American Industry.
Elton Mayo becomes the first to question the behavioral assumptions of scientific management. The studies concluded that human factors were often more important than physical conditions in motivating employees to greater productivity.

3. Management history Time Line
Organization Development: Social scientist Kurt Lewin launches the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His contributions in change theory, action research, and action learning earn him the title of the “Father of Organization Development.
1949 -There are four basic components to sociotechnical theory:
environment subsystem
social subsystem
technical subsystem
organizational design.

4. 1959 - Hygiene and Motivational Factors
1954 -Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory is published in his book Motivation and Personality. This provides a framework for gaining employees' commitment.
Leadership/Management: Drucker writes The Practice of Management and introduces the 5 basic roles of managers. He writes: - What is our business and what should it be?
Hygiene and Motivational Factors
Frederick Herzberg developed a list of factors which are closely based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, except it more closely related to work. Hygiene factors must be present in the job before motivators can be used to stimulate the workers.

5. Management history Time Line
Theory X and Theory Y: Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y principles influence the design and implementation of personnel policies and practices.
Late 1960s - Action Learning: An Unheralded British academic was invited to try out his theories in Belgium — Action Learning — it leads to an upturn in Belgian's economy.

6. Management history Time Line
Management Grid: Robert Blake and Jane Mouton develop a management model that conceptualizes management styles and relations. Their Grid uses two axis. "Concern for people" is plotted using the vertical axis and "Concern for task" is along the horizontal axis. The notion that just two dimensions can describe a managerial behavior has the attraction of simplicity.
Performance Technology: Tom Gilbert publishes Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance. It describes the behavioral-engineering model which become the bible of performance technology.

7. Management history Time Line
Excellence
McKinsey's John Larson asks his colleague, Tom Peters, to step in at the last minute and make a presentation that leads to In Search of Excellence. Thus Tom Peters spawns the birth of the “Management Guru Business.”
Learning Organization
Peter Senge: He describes the organization as an organism with the capacity to enhance its capabilities and shape its own future.. He called for five disciplines: System Thinking, Personal Mastery,Mental Models, Shared Vision, Team Learning
1995 – Ethics: CEO Aaron Feuerstein says, He answers, “The fundamental difference is that I consider our workers an asset, not an expense.” Related concept — Ethos and Leadership.