Era
Persons or Events
Accomplishments
Ancients Management Thought
The Great Wall in China, Pyramids of Egypt, Monoliths on Easter Island, Mayan Temples in South America, Stonehenge in England
Chinese emperors (2350 B.C.)
Constitution of Chow (1100 B.C.)
Persepolis in Persia (500 B.C.)
Sun Tzu (500 B.C.)
Alexander The Great (336-332 B.C.)
India (321 B.C.)
China (120 B.C.)
Involved management practices of coordination, control, and monitoring of many people over extended periods of time. (No records were available.)
Practiced organizing, directing and controlling
Organization chart for officials and craft specialization.
Built the 2600-km Royal Road and set up message systems using horse riders.
The art of war-planning and directing
Practiced informal council with specific roles and responsibilities to its members.
Practiced the concept of governments, commerce and customs.
Selected and classified officials by examination into nine specific grades.
Production practice (15 Century)
Arsenal of Venice (1436)
Streamlined production process of outfitting ships, inventory control, standardization of specification, double entry accounting, and cost control.
Industrial Revolution (18 Century) Steam Engine invented by James Watt (1769); other technological invention.
Factories are formed involving equipment and workers; destroyed of cottage industry in England; created problems related to child labor, poor living conditions for workers, crime, and brutality; induced the creation of factory layout planning; inventory control; production planning; work flow analysis and cost analysis.
Industrial Development in the United States (19 Century)
Railroads, textile mills, steel mills, and waterways were built
Charles Babbage (1792-1871)
West Point Military Academy (1871) started teaching engineering and management; Norwich University (1819), Rensselear Polytechic Institute (1823), Union