This document summarizes the contributions of several scientists and management thinkers to the evolution of organizational behavior, including:
- Elton Mayo established the scientific study of organizational behavior and emphasized informal group relations within organizations.
- Frederick Taylor developed the principles of scientific management focused on improving efficiency through specialized tasks and supervision.
- Mary Parker Follett was a pioneer in studying interpersonal relations and advocated for noncoercive power-sharing within organizations.
- Hugo Münsterberg was one of the first to apply psychology to industrial and business settings, addressing topics like hiring, motivation and marketing.
- Lillian Gilbreth was among the first industrial psychologists and applied time-and-motion studies with her husband to improve
This document summarizes the contributions of several scientists and management thinkers to the evolution of organizational behavior, including:
- Elton Mayo established the scientific study of organizational behavior and emphasized informal group relations within organizations.
- Frederick Taylor developed the principles of scientific management focused on improving efficiency through specialized tasks and supervision.
- Mary Parker Follett was a pioneer in studying interpersonal relations and advocated for noncoercive power-sharing within organizations.
- Hugo Münsterberg was one of the first to apply psychology to industrial and business settings, addressing topics like hiring, motivation and marketing.
- Lillian Gilbreth was among the first industrial psychologists and applied time-and-motion studies with her husband to improve
This document summarizes the contributions of several scientists and management thinkers to the evolution of organizational behavior, including:
- Elton Mayo established the scientific study of organizational behavior and emphasized informal group relations within organizations.
- Frederick Taylor developed the principles of scientific management focused on improving efficiency through specialized tasks and supervision.
- Mary Parker Follett was a pioneer in studying interpersonal relations and advocated for noncoercive power-sharing within organizations.
- Hugo Münsterberg was one of the first to apply psychology to industrial and business settings, addressing topics like hiring, motivation and marketing.
- Lillian Gilbreth was among the first industrial psychologists and applied time-and-motion studies with her husband to improve
This document summarizes the contributions of several scientists and management thinkers to the evolution of organizational behavior, including:
- Elton Mayo established the scientific study of organizational behavior and emphasized informal group relations within organizations.
- Frederick Taylor developed the principles of scientific management focused on improving efficiency through specialized tasks and supervision.
- Mary Parker Follett was a pioneer in studying interpersonal relations and advocated for noncoercive power-sharing within organizations.
- Hugo Münsterberg was one of the first to apply psychology to industrial and business settings, addressing topics like hiring, motivation and marketing.
- Lillian Gilbreth was among the first industrial psychologists and applied time-and-motion studies with her husband to improve
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Contribution of Scientists,
Management Thinkers in Evolution
of Organizational Behavior
Name: Rohini Lokhande
Roll no: 70 Elton Mayo George Elton Mayo was an Australian born psychologist, industrial researcher, and organizational theorist. Mayo has been credited with making significant contributions to a number of disciplines, including business management, industrial sociology, philosophy, and social psychology. His Elton Mayo field research in industry had a 1880-1949 significant impact on industrial and organizational psychology. According to Trahair, Mayo "is known for having established the scientific study of what today is called organizational behavior when he gave close attention to the human, social, and political problems of industrial civilization." Mayo's work helped to lay the foundation for the human relations movement. He emphasized that alongside the formal organization of an industrial workplace there exists an informal organizational structure as well. Mayo recognized the "inadequacies of existing scientific management approaches" to industrial organizations, and underlined the importance of relationships among people who work for such organizations. His ideas on group relations were advanced in his 1933 book The Human Problems of an Industrialized Civilization, which was based partly on his Hawthorne research. Frederick W. Taylor Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. Frederick W. Taylor He was one of the first 1856-1915 management consultants Taylor's scientific management consisted of four principles: Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks. Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than passively leaving them to train themselves. Provide "Detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task“. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks. Mary Parker Follett Mary Parker Follett was an American social worker, management consultant, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was Mary Parker one of two great women management Follett experts in the early days of classical 1868-1933 management theory. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory. Mary Parker Follett, American author and sociologist who was a pioneer in the study of interpersonal relations and personnel management. She recognized the holistic nature of community and advanced the idea of "reciprocal relationships" in understanding the dynamic aspects of the individual in relationship to others. Follett advocated the principle of what she termed "integration," or noncoercive power-sharing based on the use of her concept of "power with" rather than "power over." Hugo Münsterberg Hugo Münsterberg was a German- American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Hugo industrial/organizational, legal, Münsterberg medical, clinical, educational and 1863-1916 business settings. Münsterberg's works Vocation and Learning (1912) and Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913) are usually considered the beginning of what would later become known as industrial psychology. His books dealt with many topics including hiring workers who had personalities and mental abilities best suited to certain types of vocations as the best way to increase motivation, performance, and retention, methods of increasing work efficiency, and marketing and advertising techniques. His paper "Psychology and the Market" (1909) suggested that psychology could be used in many different industrial applications including management, vocational decisions, advertising, job performance and employee motivation. Lillian Gilbreth Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living.“ Gilbreth, one of the first Lillian Gilbreth female engineers to earn a Ph.D., is 1878-1972 considered to be the first industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, were efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering, especially in the areas of motion study and human factors. Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) and Belles on Their Toes (1950), written by two of their children (Ernestine and Frank Jr.) tell the story of their family life and describe how time-and-motion studies were applied to the organization and daily activities of their large family. Both books were later made into feature films. THANK YOU