The Henry Laurence Gantt Medal was established in 1929 by the American Management Association and the Management section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for "distinguished achievement in management and service to the community" in honour of Henry Laurence Gantt. By the year 1984 in total 45 medals had been awarded.
Lyndall Fownes Urwick was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration. He wrote an influential book called The Elements of Business Administration, published in 1943. With Luther Gulick, he founded the academic journal Administrative Science Quarterly.
Oliver Sheldon (1894–1951) was a director of the Rowntree Company in York, in the UK. He wrote on principles of public and business administration in the 1920s.
William Henry Leffingwell was an American organizational theorist, president of W. H. Leffingwell, Inc., New Jersey, management author, and the founder of National Office Management Association.
Edward Francis Leopold Brech was a British management consultant, and author of management theory and practice books, known for his work on the history of management.
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century is a book about the economics and sociology of work under monopoly capitalism by the political economist Harry Braverman. Building on Monopoly Capital by Paul A. Baran and Paul Sweezy, it was first published in 1974 by Monthly Review Press.
The Journal of Management Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1963 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. The journal publishes both conceptual and empirical papers in the field of management. Specific areas of focus include, organizational theory and behavior, strategic management, human resource management, and cross-cultural comparisons of organizational effectiveness.
Henry Plimpton Kendall was a New England entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist from Walpole, Massachusetts. He is considered one of the pioneers of scientific management.
The Taylor Society was an American society for the discussion and promotion of scientific management, named after Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1867–1949) was an American engineer and consultant to the U.S. government and private sector. He is considered one of the key figures of the American scientific management movement, which emerged in the progressive era.
Clarence Hunter Northcott (1880-1968) was an Australian sociologist and manager at the Rowntree's Works at York. He was influential in the development of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
The Gilbreth Medal is a former management award (1931-2002) for outstanding contributions to Industrial Engineering, established in 1931 by the Society of Industrial Engineers in honor of Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr..
The Wallace Clark Award or Wallace Clark Medal is a former management award for Distinguished Contribution to Scientific Management, named after Henry Wallace Clark (1880-1948). The Wallace Clark Award was established in 1949 and was sponsored by the American Management Association (AMA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Association for Consulting Management Engineers and the Society for the Advancement of Management.
Percy Shiras Brown was an American chemical, industrial and consulting management engineer, educator, and business executive, who served as president of the Taylor Society in 1924-1925, and as president of the Society for Advancement of Management in 1942-44.
William H. Gesell was an American engineer, business executive and director of Lehn & Fink Products Corporation in Bloomfield, New Jersey, now Sterling Drug. He served as the 2nd president of the Society for Advancement of Management in the years 1937-1939.
James Keith Louden was an American industrial engineer, business executive, and management author. He served as the 4th president of the Society for Advancement of Management in the year 1941-1942, and was the recipient of the 1949 Gilbreth Medal.
William Lynn McGrath was an American business executive, who was president of the Williamson Heater Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served as 8th president of the Society for Advancement of Management in the year 1947-1948.
Nobuo Noda (野田信夫) was a prominent Japanese business scholar Professor of Management at the Seikei University and President of the Seikei University in Tokyo, known as one of Japan's longstanding leaders in the field of management theory, a specialist in productivity matters.
