... of personnel centralization, scalar chain, order, equity, stability of tenure of personnel, initiative, esprit de corps (David A. Buchanan and Andrezej Huczynski, 2010:115) which provided good foundations of management. Henry Fayol credited his success to the methods he used, not to his personal qualities. He believed that managers should use certain principles in their work, in contradiction with Frederick W. Taylor who ... focused on the worker on the shop floor, known as the bottom-up approach ( David A. Buchanan and Andrezej Huczynski, 2010: 485), Henry Fayol was focused on manageme...

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... a healthy working relationship between workers and managers was essential. In addition, Taylor proposed a reward system for workers to increase output. Taylor's work inspired many others such as Henry Gantt, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, to study and propose theories for scientific management (Samson & Daft 2012). This theory was developed to overcome the lack of skilled workers in ... the formation of organizations, Rayol was more interested in the organization as a whole and the management behind it which he believed was neglected in the business world (Augustine & Agu 2013). Fayol crea...

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... developing, testing, and perfecting the mechanisms of scientific management", making the slide rule his greatest contribution (Meggison et al., 1992 p.55). Meanwhile, according to Daft and Marcic (1998), Henry Gantt (1861-1919) another colleague of Taylor, designed a chart that measured planned and completed labor along each leg of production, by utilizing graphics to present this information. Frank B. ... -1920), a German theorist, contributed to management the creation of the conceptual bureaucratic organization. Many of his concepts are still utilized and contribute to today's corpora...

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