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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ ˈ d r ʌ k ər /; German:; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.
He is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants and director of a famous firm. In Peter Drucker 's description, Frederick W. Taylor was the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study.
Henri Fayol was born in 1841 amidst the great eruption of the industrial revolution in a suburb of Constantinople (now Istanbul).His father, a military engineer, was appointed superintendent of works to build Galata Bridge, across the Golden Horn. [2]
He is also known as the father of the quality movement and was hugely influential in post-WWII Japan, credited with revolutionizing Japan's industry and making it one of the most dominant economies in the world. [1] [2] He is best known for his theories of management. [3]
Michael Porter's father was a civil engineer and Georgia Tech graduate who had also gone on to a career as an army officer. ... Academy of Management Executive, May ...
His father was an American-born Russian from Evansville, Indiana and his mother was a Russian from Moscow. At the time of Igor's birth, Ansoff, Sr., was secretary to the American Consul General in Moscow, David R. Francis , and had just completed a cross-Siberian trip on behalf of the American Red Cross , examining living conditions in prisoner ...
Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two
Management expert James O'Toole, in a 2005 issue of Compass, published by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, claimed that Bennis developed "an interest in a then-nonexistent field that he would ultimately make his own—leadership—with the publication of his 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership' [4] in Harvard Business ...