ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the dominant views and concepts of management have been developed. In order to understand the perspectives from which the concept of management has been viewed, created and even promoted, it is necessary to see the inseparable link between management as a discipline and the parallel developments in other disciplines such as organisational studies and sociology, industrial psychology, economics, personnel and human resource management. Management therefore was simply viewed as a science, the study of the dynamics of the forces within organisations which co-ordinates the activities of the sub-systems and relates them to the environment. Management thinkers and writers therefore contributed the most to the growth and development of the school of thought. The development of the management to date is marked with the emergence of the dominant values systems to which many theorists, writers and practitioners have subscribed.
