Evolution of Management Thought

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Umakanta Nayak

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Course Name : Evolution of Management Thought

Code(Credit) : CUTM1181(0-0-1)

Course Objectives

To make students

understand how the solution to the age old problems of 'allocating scarce resources to meet the needs and wants of organizations and people' have evolved over time
appreciate contributions of management thinkers to the discipline
acquainted with different concepts and jargon in the field of management

Learning Outcomes

After completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain and use the principles and concepts of management at the work front
anlyze the managerial problems from different perspectives
Handle future issues that will affect the organizations with sound conceptual knowledge

Course Syllabus

Module-I

Pre-scientific Management Era: management in ancient and medieval period (work of Sun Tzu, Kautilya, larnings from Shrimad Bhagabat Gita, Machiavelli)

Scientific Management School: Scientific management (Works of Taylor), Administrative management (Fayol), Bureaucratic theory (Max Weber)

Module-II

Human Relation School: Hawthorne experiments of E. Mayo, major contributions of M. P. Follett,

Behavioural School: Douglas M. McGregor, Chester I. Bernard, Chris Argyris, Herbert Simon, M.K. Gandhi

Introduction to Organization Structures: Traditional and modern organizational structures

Project

Each session will have student presentations on assigned topics.

Reference

Claude S. George, Jr. The History of Management Thought, PHI, N.J., 1972.

Prasad and Prasad, Administrative Thinkers, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2015.

HBR: 75 years of management ideas and practices 1922-1997.