HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT AND ITS LEGACY

FOR TODAY'S WORLD

by

J. David Hunger, Ph.D.

for

Management 370



College of Business

Iowa State University

(8/18/2005)


HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT AND ITS LEGACY
FOR TODAY'S WORLD


But I'm coming to believe that all of us are ghosts .... It's not just what we inherit from our mothers or fathers. It's also the shadows of dead ideas and opinions and convictions. They're no longer alive, but they grip us all the same, and hold on to us against our will.

- Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

Is there one best way to manage the activities of people in an organization? Many beginning managers (and even some experienced ones) look to books, consultants, and courses in management searching for "the answer" to problems as if managing could be reduced to a cookbook listing of "dos" and don'ts". Don't fall into that trap. If the history of management teaches us......

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