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    Management Gurus & Their Contributions

    Dale Carnegie (1888-1995)


    Contribution:
    Founder of Dale Carnegie Training course, you can’t deny its importance in
    management domain.

    Richard L. Daft
    Contribution:
    Delivered fundamental contributions to “Organization Behavior” & “Organization
    Design”.

    Henri Fayol (1841-1925)


    Contribution:
    Father of the famous approach to business administration, called Fayloism.

    Chester Barnard (1886-1961)


    Contribution:
    Developed immensely successful theory called “Theory Of Cooperation And
    Organization”.

    Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)


    Contributions:
    Developed the famous “Scientific Management Theory” that is now called
    “Taylorism”.
    Also developed the famous Stop Watch Method for business efficiency

    Peter Ferdinand Drucker


    Contributions:
    Developed the world famous approach in management called “Management by
    Objectives”.
    Considered as the father of modern management

    Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000)


    Contributions:
    Developed “Job Enrichment” and the “Motivator-Hygiene Theory”.

    Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970)


    Contribution:
    Gave management Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Theory
    David Clarence McClelland
    Contribution:
    Developed “Need Theory”

    Henry A. Landsberger
    Contribution:
    Father of famous “Hawthorne effect”

    Clayton Paul Alderfer (1940 - 2015)


    Contribution:
    Developed “ERG Theory”

    Douglas McGregor (1906-1964)


    Contribution:
    Developed the famous Theory X & Theory Y

    Edgar Henry Schein (1928)


    Contribution:
    Father of “Schein's Organizational Culture Model”
    And of 'Career Anchors' concept

    Peter Senge (1947)


    Contribution:
    “Learning Organization” Concept

    Jay Wright Forrester (1918 - 2016)


    Contribution:
    Founder of “Systems Dynamics Approach”

    Michael Eugene Porter (1947)


    Contribution:
    I think I don’t need to list his work ;p

    Birger Wernerfelt (1951)


    Contribution:
    Author of the most cited paper in social sciences called “A Resource-based View
    of the Firm (1984)”.
    Igor Ansoff (1918-2002)
    Contribution:
    Known as father of “Strategic Management”
    Developed “Product Market Growth Matrix”

    Bruce Doolin Henderson (1915-1992)


    Contribution:
    Founder of famous Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

    Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (1922 – 2014)


    Contribution:
    His concept of “Total Quality Control” inspired TQM Domain

    Mary Parker Follett (1868 -1933)


    Contribution:
    Considered to be the Mother of Modern Management

    Fritz Roethlisberger (1998 -1974)


    Contribution:
    Author of the most influential book on management in the 20thcentury,
    called Management And The Worker (1939)

    Robert R. Blake (1918-2004) & Jane Mouton (1930-1987)


    Contribution:
    Together developed the famous Managerial Grid Model

    Clayton M. Christensen (1952)


    Contribution:
    Father of Disruptive Innovation Theory

    James Scouller
    Contribution:
    Developed Three Levels of Leadership Model

    Fred Fiedler (1922)


    Contribution:
    Developed famous Fiedler Contingency Model

    James Victor Downton, Jr (1938)


    Contribution: Introduced Transformational Leadership Approach
    Kenneth D. Mackenzie (1937)
    Contribution:
    Developed “Theory of Group Structures” & contributed quite a lot to
    “Organization Design” Domain.

    Paul Hersey (1931-2012) & Ken Blanchard (1939)


    Contribution:
    Both of them developed Situational Leadership Theory

    Kenneth Hartley Blanchard


    Contribution:
    Author of one of the most successful book in management, called The One Minute
    Manager that sold over 13 million copies!

    Albert S. Humphrey (1926-2005)


    Contribution:
    Developed SWOT Analysis Approach

    Chris Argyris (1923 – 2013)


    Contribution:
    Is considered one of the co-founders of Organization Development Domain.

    Warren Gamaliel Bennis (1925 – 2014)


    Contribution:
    Regarded as being The Pioneer in the modern domain of leadership studies &
    research.

    Robert D. Putnam (1941)


    Contribution:
    Founder of Two Level Game Theory

    Henry Laurence Gantt (1861 – 1919)


    Contribution:
    Created the valuable Gantt Charts

    Rensis Likert (1903 - 1981)


    Contribution:
    Developed the famous 5 point Likert Scale
    Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (1947 - 2011)
    Contribution:
    Developed Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Critical Chain Project Management
    (CCPM)

    Bill Smith
    Contribution:
    Contributed to the famous Six Sigma set of tools & techniques

    George O. Charrier
    Contribution:
    Cog’s Ladder Approach

    Henry R. Towne (1844-1924)


    Contribution:
    Known as early Systematizer of Management

    Leon Pratt Alford (1877 - 1942)


    Contribution:
    Known for his seminal work in the field of industrial management

    Hugo Diemer (1870 -1937)


    Contribution:
    Authored first text book on Industrial Engineering & Management, called Factory
    Organization and Administration.

    Walter Andrew Shewhart (1891 –1967)


    Contribution:
    Known as The Father of Statistical Quality Control (STC)

    Michael Martin Hammer (1948 - 2008)


    Contribution:
    Regarded as one of the founding fathers of the management theory ofBusiness
    Process Re-engineering (BPR).

    W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)


    Contribution:
    Developed PDCA Approach also known as Deming Cycle
    Kaoru Ishikawa (1915 - 1989)
    Contribution:
    Developed the approach of Quality Circle also known as Ishikawa Charts

    John Boyd (1927 - 1997)


    Contribution:
    Famous for developing OODA LOOP

    Robert S. Kaplan (1940) & David P. Norton (1941)


    Contribution:
    Both of these two experts developed performance management tool
    called Balanced Score Card (BSC)

    Kenneth Richmond Andrews (1916 – 2005)


    Contribution:
    Played fundamental role in conceiving & promoting the notion ofBusiness Strategy

    Philip Selznick (1919 - 2010)


    Contribution:
    Developed Cooptation theory

    Geoffrey P. Chamberlain
    Contribution:
    Chamberlain's Theory of Strategy

    Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (1918 - 2007)


    Contribution:
    Developed Structure Follows Strategy notion
    Contributed to Chamberlain’s Theory of Strategy

    Richard Normand Langlois (1952)


    Contribution:
    Vanishing Hand theory

    James G. March (1928)


    Contribution:
    Ambidextrous Organization Approach

    Michael D. Cohen (1945 - 2013) & Johan Olsen (1939)


    Contribution:
    Developed decision making approach called Garbage Can Model

    Herbert A. Simon (1916 - 2001)


    Contribution:
    Introduced the notions of Bounded Rationality and Satisficing

    John A. Zachman (1934)


    Contribution:
    Zachman Framework

    Ikujiro Nonaka (1935)


    Contribution:
    SECI Model

    Thomas A. Stewart (1948)


    Contribution:
    He was listed at number 17 in the list of 50 Most Influential Management
    Thinkers by European Foundation for Management Development, also considered
    as the pioneer in the domain ofIntellectual Capital.

    Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909 - 1993)


    Contribution:
    Best known for Parkinson's Law also known as Law of Triviality
    Michael Scott Morton (1937) & George Gorry
    Contribution:
    Anthony Triangle

    Ford Whitman Harris (1877 - 1962)


    Contribution:
    Developed Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) approach for inventory management

    Edward de Bono (1933)


    Contribution:
    Six Thinking Hats Approach

    George T. Doran
    Contribution:
    SMART Criteria Approach

    August-Wilhelm Scheer (1941)


    Contribution:
    Renowned for the development of the Architecture of Integrated Information
    Systems (ARIS) concept.

    Geary Rummler & Alan Brache


    Contribution:
    Both are considered to be minds behind SWIM Lane approach akaRummler-Bache
    Diagrams

    Sakichi Toyoda (1867 - 1930)


    Contribution:
    5 Whys Approach

    Morgan R. Walker and James E. Kelley Jr


    Contribution:
    Critical Path Method (CPM) Algorithm

    Seiichi Nakajima (1919 - 2015)


    Contribution:
    Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Approach
    Founder of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) system

    Phil S. Ensor
    Contribution:
    Developed Functional Silo Syndrome Concept

    Taiichi Ohno (1912 - 1990)


    Contribution:
    Kanban Approach

    William James Reddin (1930 – 1999)


    Contribution:
    The 3D Theory

    William G. "Bill" Ouchi (born 1943)


    Contribution:
    Theory Z of Ouchi

    Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)


    Contribution:
    The Eisenhower Method

    David Allen (1945)


    Contribution:
    Getting Thing Done (GTD) Method for Time Management
    William Henry Leffingwell (1876 -1934)
    Contribution:
    The man who introduced scientific management to the work place

    John Tregoning (1845 - 1920)


    Contribution:
    Considered as one of the very first author to write on Factory Management

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