Management & Leadership: Notable Theorists

US psychologist and social scientist, who has defined and promoted management theories and strategies for workplace learning and performance.

Austrian-born management expert, who emigrated to the USA in 1937 and worked as an economist and political scientist before starting a career as a professor of management in 1950.

US management consultant and academic. After teaching at the London Business School for ten years from 1983, he moved back to California to found Strategos, an international consulting firm specializing in strategy.

US management consultant and founder of the global company McKinsey & Co. He was a university professor and a member of an accountancy practice when he founded McKinsey in 1926 to give financial and management advice to corporations.

Leading authority on competitive strategy. Michael Porter is a university professor at Harvard Business School, and an influential thinker on management strategy and economics. His ideas on strategy have become the basis for the required strategy course at the Harvard Business School, and his work is taught in virtually every business school around the world.

Throughout his career Schein has been concerned to clarify the relationship between the individual and the organization. His early work has its origins in his observations of Chinese Communists' methods of indoctrination in the Korean War.

US engineer, management consultant, and the founder of scientific management.

Although his initial training at the University of Chicago was in clinical psychology, Fiedler has always been interested in industrial and organizational psychology.

Francis Galton was born into a Quaker family with considerable wealth acquired first from trade as gun manufacturers and more recently from banking.

US psychologist. A professor at Brooklyn College (1937-51) and Brandeis University (1951-61), he is regarded as the founder of humanistic psychology.

David McClelland is the founder and chairman of the Board of MoBer and Co. and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His forty years of research have resulted in an internationally recognized theory of human motivation.

From Biographical Dictionary of Psychology
Victor Vroom was born and grew up in Montreal, Canada. During his youth, he was fascinated by jazz music and played the saxophone in bands. He went to the Sir George Williams College in Montreal, where he had his first contact with psychology.