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Evolution of Management Thinking and Practices – 19th to 20th Century – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #917 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #917 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. The Gilbreths Henry Gantt Henry Towne Morris Cooke The purpose of this series is to show how major changes evolved in the management thinking and practices.  I understand it is presenting a very large subject in a digest form, and is particularly for those who believe in understanding management, practicing it, and experimenting to develop new ideas for better performance. Most of the important developments took place in the one hundred years from second half of the 19th century to first half of 20th century. It does not mean...

Evolution of Management Thinking and Practices – 18th & 19th Centuries – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #915 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #915 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Charles Babbage Babbage Analytical Machine Charles Dupin Robert Owens Andrew Ure Several luminaries can be credited with shaping the early management thought during 18th and 19th centuries. We shall see a few in the next paragraphs. Robert Owens (1771 – 1858) Robert Owens was a successful Scottish entrepreneur and a utopian socialist who sowed the first seeds of concern for the workers. He was repulsed by the working conditions and poor treatment of the workers in the factories across Scotland. Owen became a reformer. He redu...