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Author Hoopes, James, 1944-

Title False prophets : 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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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  658.00922 H766f 2003    ---  Available
Description xxxii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-310) and index.
Contents 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 -- Human relations : management as moral leadership of bottom-up power -- Optimist : Mary Parker Follett -- Therapist : Elton Mayo -- Leader : Chester Barnard -- 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.
ISBN 0738207985

 
    
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