TY - BOOK AU - Harwood F. Merrill TI - Classics in management SN - 0814452310 AV - GC HD 31 .C53 1970 PY - 1970/// CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - American Management Association KW - MANAGEMENT KW - LITERATURE N1 - Includes bibliography; Introduction -- Robert Owen -- Charles Babbage -- Captain Henry Metcalfe -- Henry Robinson Towne -- Frederick Winslow Taylor -- Henry Laurence Gantt -- Russell Robb -- Harrington Emerson -- Alexander Hamilton Church -- Henri Fayol -- Frank Bunker Gilbreth -- Oliver Sheldon -- Mary Parker Follet -- Harry Arthur Hopf -- George Elton Mayo -- Chester Irving Baynard -- Douglas Murray McGregor N2 - This updated volume includes a new introduction and an expanded bibliography. It makes available selections from those works that have influenced management toward developing into a profession and a science. Here is classic management literature, most of it not readily available elsewhere, that offers material of practical and immediate value to the manager. "There is reason to believe that the principal directions in which management thought will develop in the foreseeable future have already been pointed out by the pioneer thinkers who provide the substance of this book." ER -