Management Theories

Named frameworks for how an organization should be run, from the earliest scientific management doctrines through total quality management and the strategic planning tools still taught today. Each theory in this band is a documented school of thought with its own originators, claims and critics, filed separately from the individual thinkers who developed it, who are placed among this atlas's founders, executives and management thinkers instead. A reader here is asking what a doctrine claims and how it has been argued over, not who first proposed it.