COB 300A - Management Theory Wiki
The science of Management have been influenced by major theorists for over 100 years. This Wiki is available to help anyone who is learning about Management or who wants to apply these theories. The initial work has been provided by James Madison University College of Business students.
Frederick W. Taylor – Scientific Management
Henry Gantt – Gantt Charting and Project Management
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth – Time and Motion Studies
Max Weber – Bureaucratic Structures
Henri Fayol – 14 Principals of Universal Management
Mary Parker Follett – Management-Organization Interactions
Chester Barnard – Informal Organization and the Cooperative Systems Approach
Elton Mayo – Employee Interaction
Douglas McGregor – Theory X, Y
Walter Shewhart – Statistical Quality Control
W. Edwards Deming – Transformation through Quality
Kaoru Ishikawa – Quality, and Fishbone
Joseph M. Juran – Internal Customers
Philip B. Crosby – Quality Improvement
Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, Jr. – Attributes of Excellence
Frederick Herzberg – Two Factor Theory
Victor Vroom – Expectancy Theory
James McGregor Burns – Transactional versus Transformational Leaders
Robert House and Terence Mitchell – Path-Goal Theory
Fred E. Fiedler – Contingency Theory