False prophets [electronic resource] : the gurus who created modern management and why their ideas are bad for business today / James Hoopes

Author	Hoopes, James, 1944-
Title	False prophets [electronic resource] : the gurus who created modern management and why their ideas are bad for business today / James Hoopes
Imprint	Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., c2003
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Descript	xxxii, 320 p. : ill

CONTENT

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

SUBJECT

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.