Management has existed for thousands of years, as evidenced by large construction projects from the past that required planning and coordination like the Egyptian pyramids and Great Wall of China. These projects employed over 100,000 workers and lasted decades, implying the necessity of managers to direct labor. Other early examples of management include the Venetian Arsenal shipyards in the 14th-15th centuries. Two significant developments in modern management history were Adam Smith's publication of "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, which advocated for the division of labor to increase productivity, and the Industrial Revolution from 1760-1840, when factories employing machines replaced manual labor in homes.

1. Historical Background of
Management

2. Management History
Historical Background of Management
Management is not a new practice (‫مشق‬). Management has been
practiced for a long time.
Management functions planning, organizing, leading and controlling
have been existed for thousand of years.
Best example of past management are, the “ Egyptian Pyramids” and “
Great Wall of China”
Construction of single pyramid needed more than 100,000 workers
and 20 years duration.

3. Management History
Historical Background or Management
Who told workers what to and how to do? Answer is manager. May be
at that time they didn’t name manager that person.
Another example is Venetian Arsenal is a complex of
former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city
of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was
responsible for the bulk of the Venetian republic's naval power from
the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the
earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history

4. Management History
Two Significant Events in Management History
1. Adam Smith
In 1776 published “ The Wealth of Nation” an important work of
economic and social theory by Adam Smith. In it he analyzed the
relationship between work and the production of a nation's wealth.
He Support and recommend the idea of “division of labor” (Job
Specialization) to increase the productivity.
Division of labor, the separation of a work process into a number of
tasks, with each task performed by a separate person or group of
persons

5. Management History
Two Significant Events in Management History
2. Industrial Revolution (‫انقالب‬ ‫)صنعتی‬
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing
processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about
1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
Substitute machine power for human labor, making it more
economical to manufacture goods in factories then at home.

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