Management Theories: Henri Fayol, Henry Mintzberg, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Max Weber
By Lam Yen Sze Elizabeth, 29 Jun 2010
Summary
Henri Fayol is the founding father of the administration school, and first to describe management as a top-down process based on planning and the organisation of people.
Henry Mintzberg articulated his fundamental belief that management is about applying human skills to systems, not applying systems to people.
Frederick Winslow Taylor advocates principles of management under the scientific management, specifically to secure maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with maximum prosperity for each employee.
Max Weber is the founding father of sociology, and he articulated the distinction between power as the ability to force obedience irrespective of resistance, and authority as the ability to get orders obeyed as a matter of course, apparently voluntarily.
(Source: "Business: the ultimate resource," 2006)
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(A) On Henri Fayol |
2. Book |
| Title: | Henri Fayol : critical evaluations in business and management / edited by John C. Wood and Michael C. Wood. |
| Publisher: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.0092 HEN |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Reference Business - Level 8 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 12 Aug 2009 |
3. Book |
| Title: | General and industrial management / translated from the French edition (Dunod) by Constance Storrs. |
| Author: | Fayol, Henri |
| Publisher: | London : Pitman, 1967. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.01 FAY |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference Business - Level 8 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
4. Book |
| Title: | The principles and practice of management / edited by E. F. L. Brech. |
| Publisher: | London ; New York : Longman, 1975. |
| Call No.: | RCLOS English 658 BRE |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
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| Title: | Credo reference : business |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henri Fayol' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Henri Fayol, General and Industrial Management, 1916] in The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley from Wiley ; (2) [Fayol, Henri] in The New Penguin Business Dictionary from Penguin, and more. |
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| Librarian's Note: | Type "Henri Fayol" & search. Some useful results: (1) [Untitled] by Nancy M. Carter, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 454-456 ; (2) [Fayolism as the Necessary Complement of Taylorism] by Norman M. Pearson, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Feb., 1945), pp. 68-80, and more. |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 07 Aug 2009 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henri Fayol' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Managing in the 21st century] by Henri Fayol, The British Journal of Administrative Management. Orpington: Jan/Feb 2000. p. 8 ; (2) [Subordination of individual interest] by Henri Fayol, Harwood F Merrill, The CPA Journal (pre-1986). New York: Mar 1975. Vol. 45, Iss. 000003; p. 60, and more. |
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(B) On Henry Mintzberg |
8. Book |
| Title: | The nature of managerial work / Henry Mintzberg. |
| Author: | Mintzberg, Henry |
| Publisher: | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1980, c1973. |
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9. Book |
| Title: | Mintzberg on management : inside our strange world of organizations / Henry Mintzberg. |
| Author: | Mintzberg, Henry |
| Publisher: | New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1989. |
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10. Book |
| Title: | The rise and fall of strategic planning : reconceiving roles for planning, plans, planners / Henry Mintzberg. |
| Author: | Mintzberg, Henry |
| Publisher: | New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, c1994. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.4012 MIN |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference Business - Level 8 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
11. Book |
| Title: | Strategy safari : the complete guide through the wilds of strategic management / Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel. |
| Author: | Mintzberg, Henry |
| Publisher: | London : Financial Times Prentice Hall, c1998. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.4012 MIN |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
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12. Book |
| Title: | The strategy process : concepts, contexts, cases / Henry Mintzberg ... [et al.]. |
| Publisher: | Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2003. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English q658.4012 STR |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference Business - Level 8 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
13. Book |
| Title: | Managers, not MBAs : a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development / Henry Mintzberg. |
| Author: | Mintzberg, Henry |
| Publisher: | San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler, c2004. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.00711 MIN |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
14. Book |
| Title: | Strategy bites back : it is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined-- / Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel. |
| Author: | Mintzberg, Henry |
| Publisher: | Harlow, England ; New York : Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2005. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.4012 MIN |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
15. Web Resource |
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| Title: | Credo reference : business |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henry Mintzberg' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Mintzberg, Henry] in The New Penguin Business Dictionary from Penguin ; (2) [Henry Mintzberg, The Nature of Managerial Work, 1973] in The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley from Wiley, and more. |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 07 Aug 2009 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henry Mintzberg' & search. Some useful results: (1) [The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact] by Mintzberg, Henry. Harvard Business Review, Mar/Apr90, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p163-176 ; (2) [Productivity Is Killing American Enterprise] by Mintzberg, Henry, Harvard Business Review, Jul/Aug2007, Vol. 85 Issue 7/8, p25-25, 1p ; (3) [Musings on Management] by Mintzberg, Henry. Harvard Business Review, Jul/Aug96, Vol. 74 Issue 4, p61-67 ; (4) [The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning] by Mintzberg, Henry. Harvard Business Review, Jan/Feb94, Vol. 72 Issue 1, p107-114 ; (5) [Crafting strategy] by Mintzberg, Henry; Hunsicker, J. Quincy. McKinsey Quarterly, Summer88 Issue 3, p71-90, and more. |
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| Librarian's Note: | Type "Henry Mintzberg" & search. Some useful results: (1) [Structure in 5's: A Synthesis of the Research on Organization Design] by Henry Mintzberg, Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Mar., 1980), pp. 322-341 ; (2) [Mintzberg's Final Paradigm] by Henry Mintzberg, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 635-636, and more. |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 07 Aug 2009 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henry Mintzberg' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Strategic Management Upside Down: Tracking Strategies at McGill University from 1829 to 1980] by Henry Mintzberg, Jan Rose, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. Halifax: Dec 2003. Vol. 20, Iss. 4; p. 270 ; (2) [Managing exceptionally] by Henry Mintzberg, Organization Science. Linthicum: Nov/Dec 2001. Vol. 12, Iss. 6; p. 759, and more. |
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(C) On Frederick Winslow Taylor |
19. Book |
| Title: | Shop management / Frederick Winslow Taylor. |
| Author: | Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915 |
| Publisher: | New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1911. |
| Call No.: | ____ English 658.4 TAY -[BIZ] |
| Availability: | Central Lending Library-Adult Lending |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
| Librarian's Note: | Please use the Online Catalogue to check availability |
20. Book |
| Title: | The principles of scientific management / by Frederick Winslow Taylor. |
| Author: | Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915 |
| Publisher: | Mineola, N. Y. : Dover Pub., c1998. |
| Call No.: | ____ English 658.5 TAY -[BIZ] |
| Availability: | Woodlands Regional Library-Adult Lending |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
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21. Web Resource |
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| Title: | Credo reference : business |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Frederick Taylor' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Frederick W Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911] in The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley from Wiley ; (2) [Taylor, Frederick W] in The New Penguin Business Dictionary from Penguin, and more. |
22. Web Resource |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 07 Aug 2009 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Frederick Taylor' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Henry L. Gantt and Frederick Taylor: The Pioneers of Scientific Management] by Darmody, Peter B.. AACE International Transactions, 2007, p15.1-15.3, ; (2) [Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community, A Reevaluation] by Nelson, Daniel. Labor History, Fall93, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p570-572, and more. |
23. Web Resource |
| Source: | http://www.nl.sg/ |
| Title: | JSTOR : the scholarly journal archive |
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| Librarian's Note: | Type "Frederick Taylor" & search. Some useful results: (1) [A Comparison of University and Industrial Discipline and Methods] by Frederick W. TaylorScience, New Series, Vol. 24, No. 619 (Nov. 9, 1906), pp. 577-583 ; (2) [Untitled] by Allen C. Bluedorn, Reviewed work(s): Scientific Management (Comprising Shop Management, the Principles of Scientific Management, and Testimony before the Special House Committee) by Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), and more. |
24. Web Resource |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 07 Aug 2009 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Frederick Taylor' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Taylor's Scientific Management] by Zimmermann, Ulf. Public Administration Review. Washington: Jul/Aug 1990. Vol. 50, Iss. 4; p. 471 ; (2) [Frederick Taylor: A Study in Personality and Innovation] by Hugh J G Aitken. Business History Review (pre-1986). Boston: Spring 1971. Vol. 45, Iss. 000001; p. 129, and more. |
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(D) On Max Weber |
25. Book |
| Title: | The theory of social and economic organization / Max Weber ; translated by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons ; edited with an introduction by Talcott Parsons. |
| Author: | Weber, Max, 1864-1920 |
| Publisher: | New York : Free Press, c1947. |
| Call No.: | RCLOS English 330.1 WEB |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
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26. Book |
| Title: | The Protestant ethic and the spirit of captalism / Max Weber ; translated by Talcott Parsons ; with an introduction by Anthony Giddens. |
| Author: | Weber, Max, 1864-1920 |
| Publisher: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. |
| Call No.: | R English 306.6 WEB |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference - Level 7 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
27. Web Resource |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Max Weber' & search. Some useful results: (1) [Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, 1924] in The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley from Wiley ; (2) [Weber, Max] in The New Penguin Business Dictionary from Penguin, and more. |
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(E) On All 4 Management Gurus |
28. Book |
| Title: | The Financial Times handbook of management / editor, Stuart Crainer. |
| Publisher: | London : Financial Times/Pitman Pub., 1995. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658.4 FIN |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference Business - Level 8 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
29. Book |
| Title: | Business : the ultimate resource. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Basic Books, c2006. |
| Call No.: | RBUS English 658 BUS |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference Business - Level 8 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
30. Book |
| Title: | Great writers on organizations / Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson. |
| Author: | Pugh, Derek Salman |
| Publisher: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. |
| Call No.: | R English 302.35 PUG |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference - Level 7 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 10 Sep 2008 |
31. Book |
| Title: | International encyclopedia of organization studies / editors, Stewart R. Clegg, James R. Bailey. |
| Publisher: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2008. |
| Call No.: | R English q302.3503 INT v. 1 |
| Availability: | Lee Kong Chian Reference Library-Adult Reference - Level 7 |
| Last Accessed Date: | 09 Sep 2008 |
| Librarian's Note: | There are a total of 4 volumes. |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 27 Jan 2010 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henri Fayol', 'Henry Mintzberg', 'Frederick Winslow Taylor', or 'Max Weber' & search. You will see their works or books written by other authors aboout their theories or works. Examples: [Managers Not MBAs : A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development] by Henry Mintzberg ; [Max Weber Matters : Interweaving Past and Present] |
33. Web Resource |
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| Title: | Emerald management xtra |
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| Last Accessed Date: | 27 Jan 2010 |
| Librarian's Note: | Type 'Henri Fayol', 'Henry Mintzberg', 'Frederick Winslow Taylor', or 'Max Weber' & search. You will see their works or books written by other authors aboout their theories or works. Examples: [The foundations of Henri Fayol’s administrative theory] ; [Managing on the edges] by Henry Mintzberg ; [Luther Gulick on Frederick Taylor and scientific management] ; [Human agents and rationality in Max Weber’s social economics] |
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