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Elton Mayo

إلتون مايو

The physician Elton Mayo, as presented in Tareq al-Suwaidan's history of management: the first to argue that man has social needs more important than money — appreciation, security and belonging — producing Theory Y against Taylor's view.

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Global / Diaspora
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Politics, governance and authority

Summary

Tareq al-Suwaidan presents Elton Mayo as the physician who rebutted Taylor's claim that money is man's only goal, arguing instead that man has social needs — appreciation, security and belonging — in what became known as Theory Y 1.

Man as a social being

Al-Suwaidan explains that Mayo held that things more important than money exist for man, so the principle of 'man as a social being' arose against Taylor's 'man as a material being', and factory managers began to care for the human side, motivation and loyalty 2. In his view, Mayo is the one to whom the social turn in management science can be traced, before Maslow 3.

People and things also explored

Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)· Islamic management· Experience versus service, and self-development· The nominal group technique· Leadership and the leader's six roles· Situational leadership

Sources

  1. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:31:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  2. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:31:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  3. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 1, at 00:32:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
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Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)

Diwan is a Persian loan-word meaning a collection of sheets and writings, in which the army and those given grants were written; for the jurists it is the register in which the names of those in state service who receive a stipend from the public treasury are recorded, and the office that keeps it. Umar ibn al-Khattab was the first to set up the diwan, according to two accounts. The people of the diwan are of several kinds: soldiers, on conditions that are regulatory, such as puberty, freedom, Islam, health and fitness for fighting; holders of office, such as governors, judges, scholars, collectors, imams and muezzins; and the needy. The Companions differed on preference in distribution: Abu Bakr and Ali made it equal, while Umar and Uthman preferred by precedence in Islam, and Umar added kinship to the Prophet; Abu Hanifa and Ahmad followed the latter view.