False prophets : the gurus who created modern management and why their ideas are bad for business today /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hoopes, James, 1944-
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., [2003]
Subjects:	Industrial management > United States > History. Executive ability > United States > History. Executives > United States > History. Leadership > United States > History. Corporate culture > United States > History. Organizational behavior > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

PART 1. Scientific management : how top-down power increased American productivity
Handling people in early America
Demon : Frederick W. Taylor
Engineers : the Gilbreths and Gantt
PART 2. Human relations : management as moral leadership of bottom-up power
Optimist : Mary Parker Follett
Therapist : Elton Mayo
Leader : Chester Barnard
PART 3. Social philosophy : management as everybody's business
Statistician : W. Edwards Deming
Moralist : Peter Drucker.