The evolution of industries and technology over the past century has been momentous. We could never have imagined the way our lives would look now back in the early 1900s. However, the ideas and ...

Managing a team can be quite complex. Effective leadership requires a balance of strategies that resonate emotionally and financially with employees. Today’s workers value authentic managers who see ...

Reprint (1st work). New York, N. Y. : Harper, 1911. Reprint (2nd work). New York, N. Y. : D. Van Nostrand, 1914.

This is quite recent. For more than a century, businesses often lost sight of the importance of creating value for others. Many firms pursued the idea of scientific management, i.e. imposing a system ...

Citations: Buenstorf, Guido, Peter Murmann. 2004. Ernst Abbe's Scientific Management: A 19th Century Forerunner of the Resource-Based Theory?.

One of the most famous statements in management is Frederick Taylor’s dictum in his 1911 book, The Principles of Scientific Management, "In the past, the man has been first; in the future, the system ...