THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROCESS-BASED APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT

Abstract

This article considers the timeline of the approaches to management of the industrial processes and organizations in general.The Adam Smith’s idea of specialization, the Henry Ford’s conveyor and Frederick Taylor’s scientific approach created functional corporations, in which specialized departments consisted of specialized workers. Such organizational chart was optimized for every department’s tasks, which are necessary to perform.During the life cycle evolution of industrial and then informational ages external conditions of production has changed. In consequence, there was born the necessity to change key factors of the management paradigm. These changes are the transfer from the functional management to the process-based approach. The functional management was the basic type of management in many organizations during the 20th century. Only in the end of 1990 companies started to integrate the process-based approach. This conversion was born cause of special conditions that the informational age created.

Keywords

• управление
• функции
• функциональное управление
• процесс
• процессное управление
• индустриальная эпоха
• информационная эпоха
• управление бизнес-процессами
• management
• functions
• functional management
• process
• process-based management
• industrial epoch
• informational epoch
• business process management