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Edward Francis Leopold Brech

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Edward Francis Leopold Brech (26 February 1909 – 22 September 2006) was a British management consultant, and author of management theory and practice books, known for his work on the history of management. [1]

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Alfred John Liversedge

Alfred John Liversedge (Huddersfield, 1854 – Croydon, 20 August 1934) was a British engineer, manager, and author, known from the 1889 publication "Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts," written under the pseudonym "A general manager." This work was one of the seminal works in the field of cost accounting.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

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Andrew Thomson (academic)

Professor Andrew William John Thomson, OBE, FBAM (26 January 1936 – 26 December 2014) was a British academic and historian who specialized in management education and industrial relations.

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Boulton and Watt

* Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines.

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.

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David J. Hickson

David John Hickson (20 April 1931 – 22 June 2016) was a British organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organization at the Bradford University School of Management, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD).

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Derek S. Pugh

Derek Salman Pugh (31 August 1930 – 29 January 2015) was a British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD), and particularly the Pugh Matrix, a tool within OD.

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Elton Mayo

George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880 – 7 September 1949) was an Australian born psychologist, industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.

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Francis G. Burton

Francis George Burton (1850s – 19 September 1915Incorporated Accountants' Journal. Vol. 26. 1915. p. 5) was a British engineer, incorporated accountant and general manager of the Milford Haven Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency.

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Fritz Roethlisberger

Fritz Jules Roethlisberger (1898 – 1974) was a social scientist, management theorist at the Harvard Business School.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Hawthorne effect

The Hawthorne effect (also referred to as the observer effect) is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.

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Human relations movement

Human relations theory refers to the researchers of organizational development who study the behaviour of people in groups, in particular workplace groups and other related concepts in fields such as industrial and organizational psychology.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Interim management

Interim management is the temporary provision of management resources and skills.

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J. Slater Lewis

Joseph Slater Lewis MICE FRSE (4 June 1852 – 27 July 1901) was a British engineer, inventor, business manager, and early author on management and accounting, known for his pioneering work on cost accounting.

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John Wilson (Professor of Public Policy)

John Wilson, Professor of Public Policy and Management at Glasgow Caledonian University, and the Executive Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Glasgow School for Business and Society (since 2011).

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Kennington

Kennington is a district in south London, England.

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Lyndall Urwick

Lyndall Fownes Urwick (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker.

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Management consulting

Management consulting is the practice of helping organizations to improve their performance, operating primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement.

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Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett (September 3, 1868 – December 18, 1933) was an American social worker, management consultant, philosopher, and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Peter Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.

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Robert Owen

Robert Owen (14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.

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Scientific management

Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows.

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Seebohm Rowntree

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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Western Electric

Western Electric Company (WE, WECo) was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that served as the primary supplier to AT&T from 1881 to 1996.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Francis_Leopold_Brech

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