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James David Mooney (18 February 1884 – 21 September 1957) was an American engineer and corporate executive at General Motors who played a role in international affairs in the 1930s and early 1940s. His career was disrupted for being a Nazi sympathizer in 1940.
About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney (1765–1825), James Watt (1736–1819), and Matthew Boulton (1728–1809) developed elements of technical production such as standardization, quality-control procedures, cost-accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work-planning. Many of these aspects of management existed in the pre-1861 ...
William James Reddin also known as Bill Reddin (May 10, 1930 – June 20, 1999) was a British-born management behavioralist, theorist, writer, and consultant. His published works examined and explained how managers in profit and non-profit organizations behaved under certain situations and conditions. [ 1 ]
Eight dimensions of quality were delineated by David A. Garvin, formerly C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, in a 1987 Harvard Business Review article. Garvin's dimensions were collated to reflect his observation that "few companies ... have learned to compete on quality". [1]
[43] James Hartness published The Human Factor in Works Management [44] in 1912, while Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth offered their own alternatives to Taylorism. The human relations school of management (founded by the work of Elton Mayo ) evolved in the 1930s as a counterpoint or complement of scientific management.
James D. Griffin is an American physician-scientist. He is currently Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School , Chair of Medical Oncology at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute , and Director of Medical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital .
Reengineering guidance and relationship of mission and work processes to information technology. Business process re-engineering (BPR) is a comprehensive approach to redesigning and optimizing organizational processes to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability.
Stoner is presently a professor at Fordham University. Stoner is an author and co-author of a number of books and journal articles, including; Management, six editions, Prentice Hall; [2] and Introduction to Business, Scott Foresman; and World-class Managing-Two Pages at a Time (co-author Freeload Press 2010).