Karol Adamiecki
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| Born | March 18, 1866 Dąbrowa Górnicza |
| Died | May 16, 1933 Warsaw, Poland |
| Occupation | Academic - Management |
Karol Adamiecki (b. March 18, 1866 in Dąbrowa Górnicza - May 16, 1933 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish economist, engineer and management researcher. Professor of Politechnika Warszawska. Founder and first director (1925-1933) of Instytut Naukowej Organizacji in Warsaw. Vicepresident of European Association of Scientific Management (Polish: Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Naukowego Zarządzania).
Karol Adamiecki was one of the most famous management researchers in Central and Eastern Europe in his times. he began his research in the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia (1884 - 1890), then moved to Poland.
In 1896, Adamiecki invented a novel method of displaying interdependencies of processes to increase visibility of production schedules. In 1931, he published a number of articles popularizing this diagram, which he called the Harmonogram or Harmonograf. With minor modifications, this chart is now more commonly referred to as the Gantt Chart.
Adamiecki published his first papers on managerial problems in 1898, before Frederick Winslow Taylor popularized scientific management. In 1925 he founded The Polish Institute of Scientific Management.
He did majority of his research and observation in the metallurgy area.
He is the author of the law of harmony in management - harmony should be composed of three parts:
- harmony of choice (all production tools should be compatible with each other, with special regard to their output production speed)
- harmony of doing (importance of time coordination, schedules and timetables)
- harmony of spirit (importance of creating a good team)
He is the patron of the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice (pl. Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach).
[edit] References
Edward R. Marsh, The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki, The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 358-364. Karol Adamiecki, Harmonograf, "Przegląd Organizacji" No. 1 (1931). Karol Adamiecki, L'harmonogramme ou tableau harmonographique, "Mon Bureau" No. 4 (1931). Karol Adamiecki, Graficke znazorneni provozu harmonografeni, "Nova Prace" No. 7-8 (1931). Karol Adamiecki, Der Harmonograph, ein neuartiges Mittel zur schaubildlichen Darstellung von Betriebsvorgängen "Wirtschaftlichkeit" No. 108 (1931).
