Karol Adamiecki
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Karol Adamiecki
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Born
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1866-03-18
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18 March 1866
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Died
| 16 May 1933
(1933-05-16)
(aged 67)
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Occupation(s)
| Academic,
management
researcher
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Field
| Management
studies
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School or
tradition
| Taylorism
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Influences
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Contributions
| Harmonogram
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Karol Adamiecki
(
D?browa Gornicza
, 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933,
Warsaw
,
Poland
) was a Polish
engineer
,
management
researcher,
economist
, and
professor
.
Life
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Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Europe. He began his research at the
Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg
, Russia (1884?90). In 1891 he graduated in engineering from the university in
St. Petersburg
. He then returned to D?browa Gornicza, where he was in charge of a steel rolling mill. While working in the steel industry, he developed his ideas on management.
In 1919 he joined the
Warsaw Polytechnic
as a lecturer, becoming a
professor
in 1922. From 1922 he headed the newly established Department of Work Organization and Industrial Enterprises at the Polytechnic's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
[1]
He was the founder and first director (1925–1933) of the Institute of Scientific Organization (
Instytut Naukowej Organizacji
) in Warsaw. He served as vice president of the
European Association of Scientific Management
(
Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Naukowego Zarz?dzania
).
In 1896 Adamiecki invented a novel means of displaying interdependent processes so as to enhance the visibility of production schedules. In 1903 his theory caused a stir in Russian technical circles. He published some articles on it in the Polish magazine
Przegl?d Techniczny
(
Technical Review
), nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20 (1909). In 1931 he published a more widely known article describing his diagram, which he called the
harmonogram
or
harmonograf
. Adamiecki had, however, published his works in Polish and Russian, languages little known in the
English-speaking world
. By this time, a similar method had been popularized in
the West
by
Henry Gantt
(who had published articles on it in 1910 and 1915). With minor modifications, Adamiecki's chart is now more commonly referred to in English as the
Gantt chart
.
[2]
[3]
Adamiecki published his first papers in management in 1898, before
Frederick Winslow Taylor
had popularized
scientific management
. In 1925 Adamiecki founded the Polish Institute of Scientific Management.
He did most of his research and observations in the field of
metallurgy
.
He is the author of the law of harmony in management: harmony should comprise three parts:
- harmony of choice (all production tools should be mutually compatible, with special regard to their output production speed)
- harmony of doing (the importance of time coordination ? schedules and
timetables
)
- harmony of spirit (the importance of creating a good team)
In 1972 the State College of Economic Administration in
Katowice
was named after him, and in 1974 it became the
Karol Adamiecki University of Economics
(
Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach
).
See also
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Notes
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- ^
Knosala, Ryszard (2017).
In?ynieria Produkcji. Kompendium Wiedzy
[
Production Engineering. Knowledge Compendium
] (in Polish). Warsaw: PWE.
ISBN
978-83-208-2270-0
.
- ^
Peter W. G. Morris,
The Management of Projects
, Thomas Telford, 1994,
ISBN
0-7277-2593-9
,
Google Print, p.18
- ^
Edward R. Marsh, The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 358-364
JSTOR
References
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- Marsh, Edward R. (June 1975). "The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki".
The Academy of Management Journal
.
18
(2). The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2: 358?364.
doi
:
10.2307/255537
.
JSTOR
255537
.
- Adamiecki, Karol (1931). "Harmonograf".
Przegl?d Organizacji
(1).
- Adamiecki, Karol (1931). "L'harmonogramme ou tableau harmonographique".
Mon Bureau
(4).
- Adamiecki, Karol (1931). "Graficke znazorneni provozu harmonografeni".
Nova Prace
(7?8).
- Adamiecki, Karol (1931). "Der Harmonograph, ein neuartiges Mittel zur schaubildlichen Darstellung von Betriebsvorgangen".
Wirtschaftlichkeit
(108).
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