Karol Adamiecki
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| Born | March 18, 1866 Dąbrowa Górnicza |
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| 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. He graduated in engineering from the university in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1891. He then returned to Dąbrowa Górnicza 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 Politechnika Warszawska as a lecturer, becoming Professor in 1922. He was the Founder and first director (1925-1933) of the Institute of Scientific Organization (Polish: 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.[citation needed]
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)
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 (Polish Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach).
[edit] References
- Marsh, Edward R. (June 1975). "The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki". The Academy of Management Journal 18 (2): pp. 358–364.
- Adamiecki, Karol (1931). "Harmonograf". Przegląd 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 Betriebsvorgängen". Wirtschaftlichkeit (108).
