History of Management Ideas
Course Outline
Fall, 2011
Course Code: MSBA-804
Credit Hours: 3
Resource Person: Qamar Ali
Capsule Statement
The practice of management is ancient, but the formal study of the body of
management knowledge is relatively new. Management thought is the contemporary
management ideas about the activity of management, its functions, purpose, and scope.
The purpose of this course of history of management ideas is to trace the significant
periods in the evolution of management thought from its earliest informal days to the
present. The study of management, like the study of people and their cultures, is an
unfolding story of changing ideas about the nature of work, the nature of human beings,
and the functioning of organizations.
This course will go beyond traditional management writings to draw upon
economic history, sociology, psychology, social history, political science, and cultural
anthropology, in order to place management thought in a cultural and historic
perspective.
A study of evolving management thought can present the sources and origins of
management ideas and approaches, trace their development, grant some perspective in
terms of the cultural environment, and thus provide a conceptual framework that will
enhance the process of investigation.
Grading Criteria
Class Participation
Term Paper
Final Exam
40 %
40 %
20 %
Course Schedule
Week
Content
1
Introduction to Management and
Organizations
2
Ancient Management Ideas
3
Classics of Management and
Organizations
Readings
1. People, management and
organizations, Chapter 1, Daniel A. Wren
(2005), The History of Management
Thought, Fifth Edition. John Wiley and
Sons, Inc.
1. Management in Early Civilizations,
Chapter 2, Daniel A. Wren (2005), The
History of Management Thought, Fifth
Edition. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
1.Socrates Discovers Generic
Management, Xenophon (1869)
4
Classics Cont…..
5
Neoclassical Management
Thought
6
Organizational Behavior
Perspectives
7
Theories of Organizational
Structures
8
Course Reflection + Mid Term
9
Systems Theory
2.Of the Division of Labour, Adam Smith
(1776)
3.Superintendent’s Report, Daniel C.
McCallum (1856)
4.The Engineer as an Economist, Henry
R. Towne (1886)
1. General Principles of Management,
Henry Fayol (1916)
2. The Principles of Scientific
Management, Fredrick Winslow Taylor
(1916)
3. Bureaucracy, Max Weber (1922)
4. Notes on the Theory of Organization,
Luther Gulick (1937)
1. The Economy of Incentives, Chester I.
Bernard (1938)
2. The Proverbs of Administration,
Herbert A. Simon (1946)
3. The Foundations of the Theory of
Organizations, Philip Selznick (1948)
1. The Giving of Orders, Mary Parker
Follett (1926)
2. A Theory of Human Motivation,
Abraham H. Maslow (1943)
3. Thee Human Side of Enterprise,
Douglas M. McGregor (1957)
1. Mechanistic and Organic Systems,
Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker (1961)
2. The Concept of Formal Organization,
Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott
(1962)
3. Organizational Choice: Product versus
Function, Arthur H. Walker and Jay W.
Lorsch (1968)
4. The Five Basic Parts of the
Organization, Henry Mintzberg (1979)
5. In Praise of Hierarchy, Elliot Jaques
(1990)
1. Organizations and the System
Concept, Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn
(1966)
2. Organizations in Action, James D.
Thompson (1967)
3. General Systems Theory: Applications
for Organization and Management,
10
Population Ecology
11
Power and Politics
12
Organizational Culture and Sensemaking
13
Organizational Learning and
Change Management
14
Management in Postmodern Era
15
16
Term Paper Presentations
Term Paper Presentations
Fremont E. Kast & James E. Rosenzweig
(1972)
1. The Population Ecology of
Organizations, Michael T. Hannan &
John Freeman (1977)
1. Understanding the Role of Power in
Decision Making, Jeffrey Pfeffer (1981)
2. The Bases of Social Power, John R. P.
French, Jr. & Bertram Raven (1959)
3. Leadership in an Organized Anarchy,
Michael D. Cohen & James G. March
(1974)
4. Power Failure in Management
Circuits, Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1979)
5. The Power Game and the Players,
Henry Mintzberg (1983)
1. Defining Organizational Culture,
Edgar H. Schein (1985)
2. Surprise and Sense Making: What
Newcomers Experience in Entering
Unfamiliar Organizational Settings,
Maryl Reis Louis (1980)
3. Images of Organization, Gareth
Morgan (1986)
1. The Z Organization, William G. Ouchi
(1981)
2. In Search of Excellence: Simultaneous
Loose- Tight Properties, Thomas J.
Peters & Robert H. Waterman Jr. (1982)
3. The Fifth Discipline: A Shift of Mind,
Peter M. Senge (1990)
1. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The
Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated
Organization, Shoshana Zuboff (1988)
2. Technology as Equivoque:
Sensemaking in New Technologies, Karl
E. Weick (1990)
3. Postmodern Thought in a Nutshell:
Where Art and Science Come Together,
William Bergquist (1993)
4. Postmodern Management and
Organization Theory, David M. Boje &
Robert P. Gephart (1996)