Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is scientific management? / Frederick W. Taylor -- Management as a profession / Mary Parker Follett -- The management theory jungle / Harold Koontz -- Toward organizational behavior / L.L. Cummings -- General systems theory : applications for organizations and management / Fremont E. Kast and James E. Rosenzweig -- Are the classical management functions useful in describing managerial work? / Stephen J. Carroll and Dennis J. Gillen -- Planning / Henri Fayol -- Long-range planning : challenge to management science / Peter F. Drucker -- Making long-range company planning pay off / George A. Steiner -- Classifying the elements of work / Frank B. Gilbreth and Lillian M. Gilbreth -- Organization theory : an overview and an appraisal / William G. Scott -- Parkinson's law / C. Northcote Parkinson -- The theory of authority / Chester I. Barnard -- The ideal bureaucracy / Max Weber -- Human organizational measurements : key to financial success / Rensis Likert.