Karol Adamiecki (Dąbrowa Górnicza, March 18, 1866 – May 16, 1933, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish economist, engineer and management researcher.
Life
Adamiecki 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 (Instytut Naukowej Organizacji) in Warsaw. Vice-president of European Association of Scientific Management (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.
Ulica Mokotowska 51/53, Warsaw, site of Adamiecki's activities in 1927-33.
In 1896, Adamiecki invented a novel means of displaying interdependence of processes, to increase visibility of production schedules. In 1903, his theory caused a stir in Russian technical circles. He published some articles on it in Przegląd 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 abroad. 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.[1][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 majority of his research and observation in the metallurgy area.
Plaque commemorating Adamiecki at ulica Mokotowska 51/53, Warsaw.
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).
Notes
- ^ Gerard Blokdijk, Project Management 100 Success Secrets, Lulu.com, 2007, ISBN 0980459907, Google Print, p.76
- ^ Peter W. G. Morris, The Management of Projects, Thomas Telford, 1994, ISBN 0727725939, Google Print, p.18
- ^ Edward R. Marsh, The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 358-364 JSTOR
References
- Marsh, Edward R. (June 1975). "The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki". The Academy of Management Journal 18 (2): pp. 358–364. doi:10.2307/255537.
- 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).
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