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The Evolution Of Western Managemeht Thoughts:a Philosophic Perspctive

Posted on:2003-11-04Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W D YinFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360065460493Subject:Marxist philosophy
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This paper, being an applied philosophy problem - solving research, using the scientific methodology of Marxist unity of history and logic, standing on the combination of the latest achievements of historical philosophy and scientific philosophy in the past century, aims at exploring and sifting out the history of management thoughts since the coming out of western management.The researcher hopes, by applying the methodology of logics, to restructure the logic frame which will be able to reflect appropriately the developing course of the management thoughts in the western world. The research not only gives the abstract outline of the dialectical development of management thoughts, but also reveals the inherent foundation of the development of management thoughts, so that it can expose the nature and rule of development of management thoughts, and open up a way for modern management theories to walk out of the theoretic jungle.The paper, based on the co - existing methodology of Hegelian and Marxism, sticking to the characteristics of "History", has proposed the historical - logic train of thought. On the one hand, it, by succeeding to the research methodology of the abstract regulation which has been refined out of all - round phenomena, by specifically analyzing and masticating the historical materials of management thoughts, has marked out the logic starting point of western management studies, and has extracted the three abstract regulations from the hundred - year - long history of management thoughts. On the other hand, it is insisting on the tight unity of history and logic in order that it will be able to comb out the inner logic among the development of management thoughts, probe into the rule of history through a developing logictrace, unfold the process of the movement of the hundred - year - long history of management, in which the contradictions, constituted by the relations of lots of abstract regulations, successively are to be extinguished and produced.On account of the originality of methodology, the paper has basically worked out the problem to theorize the history of management thoughts. The most distinguished achievements of the paper are that it has given a logic form to represent the process of management thoughts on the basis of generalizing the categories and concepts of history of management thoughts, and has promoted up the management thoughts to the theoretical level.The paper has concluded that the scientific managing viewpoint is the original contradiction in the developing course of the management thoughts in the western world. It consists of three basic regulations, namely, firstly, the standardization and science - seeking which is related to the rationalism, secondly, the studies on human mind and human behavior which are caused because the rationalism constrained the human nature, thirdly, the efforts of an organization to adapt to its surroundings which initiated the systematic studies on market surroundings and production surrounding. These three regulations constitute two groups of contradictions. One is the contradiction between the two regulations in an organization and the other is contradiction between an organization and its surroundings. The development and transformation of the three regulations and the two contradictions forms the advancement of the whole management since the Taylor's era.The definition of the starting point of the western management and the exposition of the three regulations and the two contradictions are actually the extraction of the most general categories. Trie abstract regulations can definitely cause the specific revealing of the developing stages of whole management thoughts after Taylor's scientific management in the narration of the paper. By the "specific revealing", the paper not only has got a clear command of the threads of developing stages of management thoughts in the western world, but also has highlighted the characteristics of main schools of management at different times, based on which the four stages of mana...
Keywords/Search Tags:History of westerm management thought, philosophical perspctiiv logic thinking training
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