• Introduction: Clarifying and defining basic concepts: management, history, science, technique, theory and practice
• Different histories of management, the importance of a historical approach to understand management
• Management before the rise of scientific management: the sources of economy and management
• The importance of the US engineering movement and its influence on management
• "Industrial engineering" as the forerunner of the concept of "management" in the United States
• F. W. Taylor's scientific management and so called classical theory of management (including Henri Fayol and Max Weber)
• The merge of management and psychology: Hugo Münsterberg and Lilian Gilbert
• The new paradigm of management: Elton Mayo, Douglas McGregor, Abraham Maslow
• The science of management after second world war: application of mathematics, statistics, cybernetics and general systems theory to the field of management
• Outstanding authors in the field of management theory:

Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Charles Handy
Gareth Morgan
Edwards Deming

• Management in the 21st Century.