Lyndall Urwick, management pioneer
Subtitle: a biography
By: Edward Brech, Andrew Thomson, and John F. Wilson
Contributors: Thomson, A. W. J.; Wilson, J. F.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780191591334; 9780199541966
Subjects: Management; Organizational Behavior; Management Science; Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Business consultants; Biography; History
Description: Lyndall Urwick was the dominant figure in British management between the late 1920s and early 1960s. This thoroughly-researched biography traces how his ideas and writings exercised a huge influence on management at the time ; and ultimately management as we know it today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Early life, the First World War, and glove-making; title: Rowntree's; title: The International Management Institute; title: Writings in the interwar period; title: Urwick Orr and partners; title: Wartime; title: British management developments from the 1940s; title: A mission at large; title: Later writings; title: An evaluation.