Classical and scientific management theories emphasize efficiency and task specialization through systematic study of workers ...

Frederick Taylor's scientific management theory uses time-motion studies and four key principles to improve workplace efficiency and employee productivity.

Influential leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. came to world attention because of their almost uncanny ability to inspire and motivate people. As the manager of a small ...

The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, Special Issue: "Total Quality" (Jul., 1994), pp. 392-418 (27 pages) We introduce this theory-development forum by comparing total quality and ...

As HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds. by Laura Amico and Amy Bernstein In October 1922, the very first essay in volume 1, number 1 of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Business writers of a certain age — John Kay is one, I am another — have lived through two major waves in the ...

The concept of sales "theory" or marketing "theory" is problematic. This is because these are really subsets of a broader microeconomic approach to the manipulation or creation of demand. The concept ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Human Resources and Organisations (Human Resource Management/CIPD) and MSc in Human Resources and Organisations (Organisational Behaviour). This course is not ...

The Journal of Management Information Systems will provide an integrated view of the entire discipline to both researchers and practitioners and will help communicate research and practical advances.

CIOs are still looking for the key to translate enthusiasm about artificial intelligence into concrete, fruitful projects.