Management
Can we cut the strings of management science? The discipline of management has evolved from the creation of corporations (VOC, 1602) to the introduction of scientific management (Frederick Taylor, 1911), the application of bureaucracy (Max Weber, 1921), the discovery of the employee Hawthorne Effect (Elton Mayo, 1920s) and the introduction of Management by Objectives (Peter Drucker, 1954). But these are all rooted in a mechanistic view of business and a rational view of humans. Isn’t it time that we embrace a more holistic, creative management approach based on our contemporary understanding of people and organisations as complex living systems?
— Wayne Visser
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