Management: Yesterday and Today

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The author of this paper shows how humans have always used some form of management to carry out tasks efficiently since the earliest times. However, when tracing the history of management the author traces the development of management from the industrial revolution and considers the practice of management of industries as the start of management.

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"The Behavioral or the Human Relations style of management emerged in the 1920s-30s and dealt with the human aspect of organizations. The Hawthorne Experiments that were conducted between 1924-1933 at the Hawthorne Plant of Western electric Co., Illinois heralded the advent of this style of management. The Hawthorne Studies conducted by Elton Mayo revealed the importance of the human factor on productivity. The studies indicated that there was no direct relationship between the working conditions and level of productivity. The Human Relations or Behavioral approach to management thus emphasized the attitude of workers and forced the managers to pay closer attention to the individual workers problems and to try to find out the underlying cause behind the workers attitude in order to increase productivity."

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