Chester I. Barnard

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Chester I. Barnard ( Chester Irving Barnard; born November 7, 1886 in Malden , Massachusetts, † June 7, 1961 in New York City ) was an American business leader and sociological management theorist who studied the nature of business organization. He was president of the Rockefeller Foundation .

Although he was not an academic himself, his first book Functions of the Executive from 1938 quickly became the standard work for university teaching in organizational sociology and theory.

Life

Growing up in Massachusetts , he almost had to finance his own living. He dropped out of Harvard College early and joined AT&T at the age of 23 . He remained with the company until his retirement and was President of Bell Telefone Laboratories in New Jersey between 1927 and 1948 . In 1939 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1943 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Create

The theoretically interested practitioner Barnard investigated for the first time how to coordinate a system that consists of several actors. His thoughts later found their way into organizational theory under Herbert A. Simon and have been carried on ever since.

He published only two books on organizational theory and management , which, however, are of great importance in the tradition of systems and decision-making organizational research. Barnard was an important proponent of the incentive-contribution theory .

Works

  • The Functions of the Executive. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1938
    • Leading large organizations. Girardet, Essen 1970
  • Organization and Management. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1948
    • Organization and management. Selected essays. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Chester I. Barnard. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Barnard, Chester I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnard, Chester Irving (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American business leader, sociological management theorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Malden, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1961
Place of death New York City