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= Strand 3: The nature of work: Business and Corporate Development =
 * 1900 - 2009**

1905 [|Taylorism Scientific managementby Frederick Winslow Taylor] 1905 The Office of Public Roads (OPR) is established, successor to the Office of Road Inquiry established in 1893 1908 [|Henry Ford begins making the Model T.] First-year production is 10,660 cars 1908 [|William Durant forms General Motors]. His combination of car producers and auto parts makers eventually becomes the largest corporation in the world. 1909 [|First commercially successful electric toaster]
 * Decade: 1900 - 1909**

1910 Tme and Motion study by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr 1910 Henry Laurence Gantt developedGantt Chart(A Gantt chart is a graphical representation of the duration of tasks against the progression of time). 1910's Henri Fayoldeveloped manufacturing processes 1913 [|First electric dishwasher on the market] 1913 [|Ford Motor Company develops the first moving assembly line for automobiles] 1917 [|Wisconsin adopts road numbering system] Wisconsin is the first state to adopt a numbering system as the network of roads increases. The idea gradually spreads across the country and replaces formerly named trails and highways. 1917 [|Ford and son tractor sells for $395] 1918 [|The U. S. Postal Service inaugurates airmail service] from Polo Grounds in Washington, D.C 1919 [|Passenger service across the English Channel introduced]
 * Decade: 1910- 1919**

Walter A. Shewhart - Statistical Quality Control Walter Dill Scott -applying psychological principles to personnel selection 1923 [|Electrically refrigerated ice cream dipping cabinet is marketed] 1923 [|Uniform system of signs] State highway engineers across the country adopt a uniform system of signage based on shapes that include the octagonal stop sign 1925 [|Televisor] John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first recognizable image—the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy—at a London department store, using a device he calls a Televisor. 1925 [|Numbering system for interstate highways] 1927 [|General Electric introduces the first refrigerator]to be mass produced with a completely sealed refrigerating system 1927 [|Completion of the Holland Tunnel]beneath the Hudson River links New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey.
 * Decade: 1920 - 1929**

1930 [|Human Relations Movement] [|Mary Parker Follett - scientific management] 1930 [|P. Blackett- Operations Research] 1930 [|New process increases octane rating gasoline] 1930 [|Glass fibers become commercially viable] 1931 [|Caterpillar manufactures a crawler tractor with a diesel engine] 1933 [|In February, Boeing introduces the 247, a twin-engine 10-passenger monoplane that is the first modern commercial airliner] 1935 [|The first generator at Hoover Dam]along the Nevada-Arizona border begins commercial operation. 1935 [|Pan American inaugurates the first transpacific mail service, between San Francisco and Manila.] 1935 [|Rural Electrification Administration bring electricity to many farmers] 1937 [|Golden Gate Bridge] 1939 [|John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State College design the first electronic computer]
 * Decade: 1930 - 1939**

[|Alex Osborne -Brainstorming] [|Bureaucratic Management Theory-] Max Weber embellished the scientific management theory with his bureaucratic theory 1940 [|The Pennsylvania Turnpike] opens as the country’s first roadway with no cross streets, no railroad crossings, and no traffic lights 1942 [|First commercially viable mechanical spindle cotton picker] 1944 [|Federal Aid Highway Act] The Federal Aid Highway Act authorizes the designation of 40,000 miles of interstate highways to connect principal cities and industrial centers 1945 [|Specifications of a stored-program computer] 1947 [|North American Numbering Plan] 1948 [| Plans to commercialize nuclear power] 1949 [|AT&T introduces the Model 500 telephone,]the first that combines a ringer and handset. The classic black rotary phone, featuring an adjustable volume control for the bell and later a variety of colors, becomes a cultural icon.
 * Decade: 1940 - 1949**

[|Peter Drucker-Organizational Theory] [|Edwards Deming-Mgt, Quality] 1951 [|First computer designed for U.S. business] 1952 [|First computer compiler] 1952 [|First commercial device to apply Shockley’s junction transistor] 1953 [|DuPont opens a U.S. manufacturing plant to produce Dacron] 1954 Gordon Teal, a physical chemist formerly with Bell Labs, shows colleagues at Texas Instruments that transistors can be made from pure silicon—demonstrating the first truly consistent [|mass-produced transistor.] 1954 [|Atomic Energy Act of 1954] 1956 [|New Federal Aid Highway Act] 1957 [|FORTRAN becomes commercially available] 1957 [|International Atomic Energy Agency]The International Atomic Energy Agency is formed with 18 member countries to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Today it has 130 members. 1958 [| United States launches its first satellite]
 * Decade: 1950 - 1959**

[|Douglas Mcgregor xy theory] [|H. Munsterberg- Human Relations Managment] 1962 [|ARPA Information Processing Techniques Office] 1962 [|First commercial digital transmission system] 1964 [|On Distributed Communications Networks] 1965 [|First electronic central office switching system] 1966 [|Highway Safety Act] 1966 [|ARPANET project] 1967[| Paul Lawrence Contingency theory] 1968 [|First 911] On February 16 the first 911 call is made in Haleyville, Alabama. Legislation calling for a single nationwide phone number for citizens to use to report fires and medical emergencies was passed by Congress in 1967 1969 [|DARPA deploys the IMPs]
 * Decade: 1960 - 1969**

[|SWOT Analysis- K. Andrews] [|F. Hertzberg- Motivation Theory] [|Russell Ackoff- Systems Theory] [|Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory] 1970 [|Initial ARPANET host-to-host protocol] 1971 [|Intel introduces "computer on a chip"] 1972 [|First public demonstration of the new network technology] 1972 [|First e-mail program] - Ray Tomlinson at BBN writes the first e-mail program to send messages across the ARPANET. In sending the first message to himself to test it out, he uses the @ sign—the first time it appears in an e-mail address. 1978 [|Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act]
 * Decade: 1970 - 1979**

1980 [|U.S. Department of Defense adopts the TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol) suite as a standard] [| Total Quality Management] [|Chaos Theory] [|A Maslow- Theory Z] 1980's [|Japanese popularize "just in time" delivery of auto parts] 1983 [|Internet Activities Advisory Board] 1983 [|The Internet] ARPANET, and all networks attached to it, officially adopts the TCP/IP networking protocol. From now on, all networks that use TCP/IP are collectively known as the Internet. The number of Internet sites and users grow exponentially. 1984 [|Macintosh is introduced] 1985 [|Windows 1.0 is released]
 * Decade: 1980 - 1989**

[|Six Sigma a measure of quality] [|Knowledge Management] [|Dot-com] 1990 [|Human Genome Project] 1990 [|Nanotechnology] 1991 [|World Wide Web software]developed-CERN releases the World Wide Web software developed earlier by Tim Berners-Lee. Specifications for HTML (hypertext markup language), URL (uniform resource locator), and HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) launch a new era for content distribution.At the University of Minnesota, a team of programmers led by Mark McCahill releases a point-and-click navigation tool, the "Gopher" document retrieval system, simplifying access to files over the Internet. 194 [|Yahoo founded] 1998 [|Coordination of Internet domain names transitions from federal to private sector]
 * Decade: 1990 - 1999**

[|Dot-com decline] [|Web 2.0] [|Nicholas Negroponte- One Laptop per Child non-profit association.] 2000 [|100 million cellular telephone subscribers] 2000 Toyota releases Prius hybrid car 2002 [|Blackberry]
 * Decade: 2000 - 2009**

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Guru, (2009, February 13). Henri Fayol. Retrieved September 28, 2009, from The Economist Newspaper Limited: http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/management/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13095213

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