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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.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., [2003]
©2003

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 Moore Stacks  HD70.U5 H65 2003    Available  ---
Description xxxii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 -- PART 2. Human relations : management as moral leadership of bottom-up power -- Optimist : Mary Parker Follett -- Therapist : Elton Mayo -- Leader : Chester Barnard -- PART 3. Social philosophy : management as everybody's business -- Statistician : W. Edwards Deming -- Moralist : Peter Drucker.
Subject Industrial management -- United States -- History.
Industrial management.
United States.
History.
Executive ability -- United States -- History.
Executive ability.
Executives -- United States -- History.
Executives.
Leadership -- United States -- History.
Leadership.
Corporate culture -- United States -- History.
Corporate culture.
Organizational behavior -- United States -- History.
Organizational behavior.
ISBN 0738207985