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Management as a Discipline
1948 - 1954
The period formalizes management as a distinct field by integrating organizational behavior and human relations into core practice, with a broad focus on supervision, morale, and worker relations across office and industrial settings. Leadership attitudes and supervisory dynamics become central to productivity and morale, emphasizing dyadic interactions between managers and subordinates. Administrative processes, decision-making, and organizational design are treated as core managerial activities, using experimental and descriptive methods to study managerial choice and industrial relations decisions, shaping how organizations are structured and operated.
• Emergence of Organizational Behavior (OB) and Human Relations (HR) as central lenses in management science, integrating field studies on supervision, morale, and worker relations across office and industrial contexts [1], [2], [8], [10], [12], [18].
• Leadership attitudes and supervisory dynamics, a core Organizational Behavior (OB) frame, linking industry surveys and promotion ratings to productivity and morale with emphasis on dyadic interactions [2], [3], [8], [9], [19].
• Decision-making and administrative processes as central managerial activities, combining experimental/ descriptive approaches to managerial choice, industrial relations decisions and administrative behavior [11], [14], [17], [20].
• Organizational structure and theory as design principles, analyzing organization and management, organizing processes, and industrial organization across sectors [4], [5], [6].
• Productivity-focused management across contexts (office, railroad, oil) examining supervision, rank effects, and workforce performance under various organizational controls [1], [7], [9], [16].
Strategic Governance Paradigm
1955 - 1984
Resource-Based Knowledge Governance
1985 - 1995
Dynamic Knowledge Capabilities Era
1996 - 2002
Ambidexterity and Dynamic Capabilities
2003 - 2009
Resource-Orchestrated Stakeholder Ambidexterity
2010 - 2016
Green HRM and Industry 4.0
2017 - 2024