Management Theories

Named frameworks and schools of thought for how an organization should be structured, led and improved: scientific management, total quality management, strategic planning frameworks and the classical, behavioral and quality-movement traditions that produced them, organized below into four groups by the era and concern each framework addresses. A theory belongs here when its subject is the named framework itself. Excludes: the individual theorist who developed a framework, catalogued under Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers under the Management Theorist grouping and linked back to the theory rather than repeating its content; and a named commercial approach to selling or structuring a business, catalogued under Business Models, which addresses what a business does rather than how it is run internally.