management consulting
Historical overview of management consulting
consulting organization management
Management consulting was born during the industrial revolution, with the advent of modern factories and the associated institutional and social transformations. It has common roots with management as a separate area of human activity and a subject of study. Consulting becomes possible when the process of communication and structuring of managerial experience reaches a relatively advanced stage. By the beginning of this stage, methods and principles applicable to various organizations and situations should be identified and described, and the entrepreneur must have the need and desire to conduct his business in the best possible way and to improve management methods. The conditions for this were created only in the second half of the 19th century, when the movement of scientific management was born.
Pioneers of scientific management. The theory of scientific management had a number of predecessors. One of them is the American manufacturer Charles T. Sampson, in 1870 he reorganized the production process at his shoe factory in such a way that he could to recruit personnel from among unskilled Chinese workers.