Karol Adamiecki

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name = Karol Adamiecki

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birth_date = March 18, 1866
birth_place = Dąbrowa Górnicza
death_date = May 16, 1933
death_place = Warsaw, Poland
occupation = Academic - Management
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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 ( _pl. "Instytut Naukowej Organizacji") in Warsaw. Vice-president of European Association of Scientific Management ( _pl. "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 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. [Gerard Blokdijk, "Project Management 100 Success Secrets", Lulu.com, 2007, ISBN 0980459907, [http://books.google.com/books?id=dgB-QWHlnrUC&pg=PA76&dq=Adamiecki+Gantt&as_brr=3&sig=Jp-mgVODNRJpxqBRM1PYJbs7mOU Google Print, p.76] ] [Peter W. G. Morris, "The Management of Projects", Thomas Telford, 1994, ISBN 0727725939, [http://books.google.com/books?id=5ekyoWaeZ1UC&pg=PA18-IA7&dq=Adamiecki+Gantt&as_brr=3&sig=xe_RAipoqlvhnu0xLkIsxx-8OAQ Google Print, p.18] ] [Edward R. Marsh, The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 358-364 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/255537 JSTOR] ]

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. 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

References

* cite journal
first = Edward R.
last = Marsh
title = The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki
journal = The Academy of Management Journal
volume = 18
issue = 2
month = June
year = 1975
pages = pp. 358–364
doi = 10.2307/255537
* cite journal
first = Karol
last = Adamiecki
title = Harmonograf
journal = Przegląd Organizacji
issue = 1
year = 1931
* cite journal
first = Karol
last = Adamiecki
title = L'harmonogramme ou tableau harmonographique
journal = Mon Bureau
issue = 4
year = 1931
* cite journal
first = Karol
last = Adamiecki
title = Graficke znazorneni provozu harmonografeni
journal = Nova Prace
issue = 7–8
year = 1931
* cite journal
first = Karol
last = Adamiecki
title = Der Harmonograph, ein neuartiges Mittel zur schaubildlichen Darstellung von Betriebsvorgängen
journal = Wirtschaftlichkeit
issue = 108
year = 1931

ee also

* List of business theorists
* List of economists

External links

* [http://www.ae.katowice.pl/index.php?co=151 Important dates in his life and bibliography, in Polish]
* [http://www.wip.edu.pl/index.php?s=49 The Warsaw University of Technology]
* [http://english.ae.katowice.pl/node/8 A Biography from the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics]