Lecture The evolution of management thought (6th edition) - Chapter 4: Management pioneers in the early factory

The genesis of modern management can be found in Great Britain and France after the Industrial Revolution: Robert Owen searched for harmony between the human facto and the age of machines, Charles Babbage applied a scientific approach to management, Andrew Ure taught and developed managers in Glasgow, Charles Dupin taught management courses in France.

THE EVOLUTION

OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT, 6TH

EDITION

Electronic Resource by:

Regina Greenwood and Julia Teahen

Management Pioneers in the Early Factory

Chapter Four

Management Pioneers in the Early

Factory

 Robert Owen – problems in human terms

 Charles Babbage – systematic

management

 Andrew Ure – trained managers

 Charles Dupin – took Ure’s ideas to France

This illustration of power loom weaving

appeared in Edward Baines's The History 

of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain (1835)

Robert Owen (1771- 1858)

Utopian Socialist

 Learned about

management by

observing and trial

and error on the

 “Silent Monitor” which relied on peer

pressure or public knowledge of

performance vs corporal punishment.

 Philosophy was to invest in the “vital

machines” as a means of increasing

profitability.

Robert Owen’s Philosophy

 Entrepreneurs should invest in the “vital machine” (people) as a means of

increasing profitability

 Individuals were “creatures of their

environment;” character developed if

the material and moral environment was proper

Owen’s Communal Society

 All would share

Robert Owen - Biographical Notes

 Self-made, successful entrepreneur

 Founded his first factory in Manchester, England at age 18

 Established utopian community New

Harmony in Indiana, USA

Charles Babbage (1792-1871)

Irascible Genius

 Never a manager, however a keen observer of the factory and a brilliant inventor and scientist.

 The Difference Engine – a

mechanical calculator

 The Analytical Engine – the first computer

 Conceived an early

19 th century printer

 Charles Babbage Institute

The Difference Engine

Rizalar, Suna History and Theory of Multimedia and Animation (Accessed November 30, 2008)

http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~sriz8189/computing7.html

The Analytical Engine

Rizalar, Suna History and Theory of Multimedia and Animation (Accessed November 30, 2008)

http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~sriz8189/computing7.html

Augusta Ada Byron

(1815-1852)

 Countess of Lovelace

 Programmer

 Contributor in describing the operations of the computer

Babbage’s Contributions to Management Thought

– first of its kind

 Profit sharing – idea

from MaisonLeClaire,

Parisian house

painting firm

Andrew Ure (1778-1858)

Management Education Pioneer

 First “teacher of management”

 Well known scientist – his courses attracted those seeking

technical knowledge to obtain a

managerial job

Andrew Ure courtesy of StrathclydeUniversity

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personnel, and sales & finance areas).

Andrew Ure

 Had an early notion of the task of the

general manager to integrate the parts

to contribute to the whole (organic

 Defended the factory system using

comparison data from the cotton mills of

1833 and 1804

In Ure’s 1833 survey of cotton mills, note the continuing use of water power, the percentage of female employees vis a vis males; and the percentage of employees age 18 and under and over 18 What does his survey tell us about industrial progress some 50 years after the introduction of the steam engine?

Charles Dupin (1784-1873)

Industrial Education in France

 Taught courses similar to

Ure’s management classes

 This “Special Study”

could be taught rather

Charles Dupin

 Was influenced by colleague Jean

Baptiste Say, industrial economist

 Influenced the work of Henri Fayol

Why did management fail to develop during this period?

Why did management fail to develop

 The genesis of modern management

can be found in Great Britain and France after the Industrial Revolution:

 Robert Owen searched for harmony

between the human facto and the age of machines.

 Charles Babbage applied a scientific