2. LYNDALL FOWNES URWICK
Lyndall Fownes Urwick was an influential business management consultant and
thinker in the United Kingdom.
He is recognized for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a
comprehensive theory of management administration.
He was born in Worcestershire, the son of a partner in Fownes Brothers, a long-
established glove-making firm.
He studied at Boxgrove Primary School, Repton School and Oxford university,
where he read history.
After that, he saw active service in the trenches during the First World War and
his respect for military training would affect his outlook on management in later
life.
Later he joined her parent’s business playing the role involved assisting the
modernization of the company, bringing to bear his own thinking, which had two
main influences: the scientific management by Frederick Winslow Taylor and the
humanity of management concept by Mary Parker Follett
3. LYNDALL FOWNES URWICK
When he joined her parent’s business he played the role involved assisting the
modernization of the company, bringing to bear his own thinking, which had two
main influences: the scientific management by Frederick Winslow Taylor and the
humanity of management concept by Mary Parker Follett
In 1945 he published Making of Scientific Management. It was the first treatise
to present a clear and focused discussion of the development and applications of
management science. It included a comprehensive number of profiles of leading
proponents of management theory.
All the book content aimed to bring '"adequate intelligence" to the control of the
forces released by a mechanised economy' to bring the logical standards of science to
bear on business practice. This book showed a long background of scientific
management practices had previously been largely unknown .
