Ancient History: Management Through the 1990s
1. What goals seem to dominate early management principles?
2. Do you see any commonalities between Fayol’s principles of management from 1911 and those of Tom
Peters in the 1990s?
3. Are there any jobs today for which time and motion studies would make sense to do? Would any other skills
need to be taught as well?
4. What do early management principles leave out?
5. How would you put some of the ideas of the 1990s into practice?
6. What aspects of P-O-L-C would be most likely to change based on what you have learned in this section?
