The Management Century

by Stuart Crainer

It's been with us since the dawn of civilization. But only in the past one hundred years has management been recognized, and formalized, as a profession. Now, in The Management Century, business journalist Stuart Crainer offers a fascinating, lively tour of management's golden age in a book filled with historic characters any novelist would envy. From Henry Ford to W. Edwards Deming, the innovators Crainer visits here are as in-triguing as the ideas they championed. It's a work that breathes real life into a chronology that's embedded with valuable insights for every student of management theory and practice.

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Hardcover

First published January 27, 2000

Reviews

[David Cheshire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having a sweeping over-view of management theory really brings home how the prevailing political and cultural context shaped fashions over the decades. Sometimes the style is military (aims, objectives, Cold War), sometimes organisation man (Fordism), then human-centred (organisational cultures, social psychology, the New Deal, the Sixties), sometimes chaos (pick-n-mix, post-Cold war confusion). A good, sensible yet readable survey of a subject neglected by historians of the 20th century.