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  2. POSDCORB - Wikipedia

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    POSDCORB is an acronym widely used in the field of management and public administration that reflects the classic view of organizational theory. [1] It appeared most prominently in a 1937 paper by Luther Gulick (in a set edited by himself and Lyndall Urwick). However, he first presented the concept in 1935. [2]

  3. Herbert A. Simon - Wikipedia

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    Herbert A. Simon. For the Indiana Pacers' owner, see Herbert Simon (real estate). Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology.

  4. Mary Parker Follett - Wikipedia

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    mpfollett.ning.com. Follett, at her graduation from Radcliffe. Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management ...

  5. Scientific management - Wikipedia

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    Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes to management. Scientific management is sometimes known as Taylorism after its pioneer ...

  6. Organizational theory - Wikipedia

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    Organizational theory refers to a series of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also seeks to explain how interrelated units of organization either connect or do not connect with each other. Organizational theory also concerns ...

  7. New neoclassical synthesis - Wikipedia

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    e. The new neoclassical synthesis (NNS), which is occasionally referred as the New Consensus, is the fusion of the major, modern macroeconomic schools of thought – new classical macroeconomics / real business cycle theory and early New Keynesian economics – into a consensus view on the best way to explain short-run fluctuations in the economy.

  8. Positive psychotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Description. Positive psychotherapy (PPT) is a therapeutic approach developed by Nossrat Peseschkian during the 1970s and 1980s. [2][3][4] Initially known as "differentiational analysis", it was later renamed as positive psychotherapy when Peseschkian published his work in 1977, which was subsequently translated into English in 1987.

  9. Likert's management systems - Wikipedia

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    Likert's management systems[1] are descriptions of management styles developed by Rensis Likert in the 1960s. He outlined four systems of management to describe the relationship, involvement, and roles of managers and subordinates in industrial settings. He based the systems on studies of highly productive supervisors and their team members of ...