Robert Owen was a pioneer in early management who sought to improve living and working conditions for laborers. At his New Lanark mills in Scotland, he instituted reforms like limiting child labor and establishing an education system. He believed this "moral suasion" approach could reshape communities and create a more communal society with less poverty and hunger. His efforts helped establish some of the foundations for later management concepts like focusing on the human element in industry and bringing more education and training into the workplace.

1. Background
urgent need of managers who
can cope with growing factory
system
new industrial society,
combination of agricultural &
industrial
intensive observation
manual labor if properly
directed is the source of all
wealth & national prosperity
Concepts
concern of human element in industry
moral suasion
maintenance (machines & people)
accumulation of human misery
communal society
if all shared, no one will hunger
multitasking people
improve living condition for
child labors
reshape village (streets,
houses, sanitation, education)
husbandry plan
New Lanark
develop arduous, menial jobs
in New Lanark
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seed of management discipline
Actions
sparse & rudimentary
dominated by technical
genius, inventor-pioneer,
owner-founder
silent monitor
Robert Owen
reform society
mark in colors
proposed factory bill about child labor
Summary
new currency
no division of labor
New Harmony
happiness for members
education & training
freedom of speech
distinguish management &
technical skill
necessity of management
education & training
balance work load
equality of women labor
Village of Cooperation
Concepts & Ideas
British Trade Union Movement
Charles Dupin
clear instruction for worker
intensive methods in
agriculture
mechanization creates jobs
development of standard value
influence for industrial
education & training
foundation for Henry Fayol's research
Contribution
Contributions
time study
Management
Pioneers in Early
History
Management education & training
can shift worker class
Performance appraisal
use symbol & tools
laws for relief the poor
solutions for unemployment
curiosity bring innovation
3 organic system
commercial
application of
technological aids
Concepts & Ideas
analytical engine
probability theory & decision
making in gamming program
self governing agency
incidence of disease
health
dietary habits
efficient use of power
Andrew Ure
defender of factory system
mechanical principal of
manufacture
income
techniques & processes of
production
condition of personal
labor to be understanding as
human/ vital machine
foundation for law about child labor
mechanical
moral
based on agriculture
Concept & Ideas
essential principle of factory system
sustaining organization
through selling & financing
systematic approach to study
of operation
making >< manufacturing
competitive market called for
ingenuity, innovation &
improvement
Contribution
worker's direct interest for
firm's prosperity
automatic plan
mutuality interest
profit sharing in factories
prevent waste &
mismanagement
improvement
hire only most respectable &
skillful workers
Charles Babbage
foundation for operation
research & management
science
first practical mechanical calculator
binary system for information storage
first versatile computer
all component of modern computer
mechanization of the
organizing
logical control of arithmetic function
Contributions
paper printer
surefire system for betting on horse
gamming program
automaton
counting machine to check
quantity of work
methods of observing
manufacture
wage components
fixed
variable
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