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Rue: Management:  Skills and Application, 10e
Management: Skills and Application, 10/e
Leslie W Rue, Georgia State University - Emeritus
Lloyd L Byars, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Management Movement

Learning Objectives


Explain why management did not emerge as a recognized discipline until the 20th century.

Describe the three facets of the U.S. Industrial Revolution.

Discuss the role the captains of industry played in the development of modern organizations.

Define scientific management and outline the role that Frederick W. Taylor and his contemporaries played in its development.

Summarize Henri Fayol's contributions to modern management.

Discuss the human relations thrust in management with emphasis on the role of the Hawthorne experiments.

Define the management process period, the management theory jungle, the systems approach, and the contingency approach.

Compare the major differences in the American, Japanese, and Theory Z organizations.

Summarize the eight characteristics of excellent companies identified by Peters and Waterman.

Explain why the international aspects of management are currently being emphasized.

Discuss some predictions as to how managers might manage in the 21st Century.