Karol Adamieki
Karol Adamieki
Born	March 18, 1866 Dąbrowa Górnicza
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. Professor of Politechnika Warszawska. Founder and first director (1925-1933) of Instytut Naukowej Organizacji in Warsaw. Vicepresident of European Association of Scientific Management (Polish: Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Naukowego Zarządzania). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Motto: none Voivodship Silesian Municipal government Rada Miejska Dąbrowy Górniczej Mayor Jerzy Talkowski Area 188 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 129 700 - 689/km² Founded City rights - - Latitude Longitude 50°19 N 19°16 E Area code +48 32 Car plates SD Twin towns - Municipal Website D... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Motto: none Voivodship Silesian Municipal government Rada Miejska Dąbrowy Górniczej Mayor Jerzy Talkowski Area 188 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 129 700 - 689/km² Founded City rights - - Latitude Longitude 50°19 N 19°16 E Area code +48 32 Car plates SD Twin towns - Municipal Website D... May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ... Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Warsaw University of Technology is the largest academic school of technology in Poland, employing 2. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ...

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. Lapel pin of a graduate from Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technological University) (Russian: ) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia (founded in 1828), that currently trains around 5000 students. ...

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. Gantt chart showing three kinds of schedule dependencies (in red) and percent complete indications. ...

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. Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 - March 21, 1915) was an American engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. ... Scientific management, Taylorism or the Classical Perspective is a method in management theory which determines changes to improve labour productivity. ...

He did majority of his research and observation in the metallurgy area. Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ...

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)

He is the patron of the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice (pl. Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach). A timetable is an organized list or schedule, usually set out in tabular form, providing information about a series of arranged events: in particular, the time at which it is planned these events will take place. ... The Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice (Poland), founded in 1937, is the only state university specializing in Economics and Business studies in the region and one of the top universities in the country. ... Panorama of Katowice at night Katowice (pronunciation: [] (Czech: Katovice, German: Kattowitz) is an important city of the historical region of Upper Silesia in southern Poland on the KÅ‚odnica and Rawa rivers. ...

References

Edward R. Marsh, The Harmonogram of Karol Adamiecki, The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 358-364. Karol Adamiecki, Harmonograf, "Przegląd Organizacji" No. 1 (1931). Karol Adamiecki, L'harmonogramme ou tableau harmonographique, "Mon Bureau" No. 4 (1931). Karol Adamiecki, Graficke znazorneni provozu harmonografeni, "Nova Prace" No. 7-8 (1931). Karol Adamiecki, Der Harmonograph, ein neuartiges Mittel zur schaubildlichen Darstellung von Betriebsvorgängen "Wirtschaftlichkeit" No. 108 (1931).

See also

• List of business theorists
• List of economists

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External links

• Important dates in his life and bibliography, in Polish
• The Warsaw University of Technology
• A Biography from the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics