Management Rev Ed

Chapter One

Introduction: Management and Managers Defined

Management may be the most important innovation of the twentieth century—and the one most directly affecting the young, educated people in colleges and universities who will be tomorrow's "knowledge workers" in managed institutions, and their managers the day after tomorrow. But what is management? Why management? How do you define "managers"? What are their tasks, their responsibilities? And how has the study and discipline of management developed to its present state?

When the first business schools in the United States opened around the turn of the twentieth century, they did not offer a single course in management. At about that same time, the word "management" was first popularized by Frederick Winslow Taylor to describe what he had formerly (and more accurately) called "work study" or "task study"; we call it "industrial engineering" today. But when Taylor talked about what we now call "management" and "managers," he said "the owners" and "their representatives."

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