Karol Adamiecki ( Dąbrowa Górnicza , 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933, Warsaw , Poland ) was a Polish engineer , management researcher, economist , and professor .
8-641: Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Europe. He began his research at the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg , Russia (1884–90). In 1891 he graduated in engineering from the university in St. Petersburg . 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
16-576: 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 in the English-speaking world . 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
24-629: Is now more commonly referred to in English as the Gantt chart . 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 most of his research and observations in the field of metallurgy . He is the author of the law of harmony in management: harmony should comprise three parts: In 1972
32-588: The European Association of Scientific Management ( Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Naukowego Zarządzania ). In 1896 Adamiecki invented a novel means of displaying interdependent processes so as to enhance the visibility of production schedules. In 1903 his theory caused a stir in Russian technical circles. He published some articles on it in the Polish magazine Przegląd Techniczny ( Technical Review ), nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20 (1909). In 1931 he published
40-646: The Warsaw Polytechnic as a lecturer, becoming a professor in 1922. From 1922 he headed the newly established Department of Work Organization and Industrial Enterprises at the Polytechnic's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He was the founder and first director (1925–1933) of the Institute of Scientific Organization ( Instytut Naukowej Organizacji ) in Warsaw. He served as vice president of
48-624: The State College of Economic Administration in Katowice was named after him, and in 1974 it became the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics ( Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach ). Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University) ( Russian : Санкт-Петербургский Технологический Институт (Технический Университет) )
56-633: The institute's name changing with that of the city. During the Imperial period, unlike most other Russian universities, the institute did not require completion of gymnasium education as a condition of entry; the only requirement was to pass the institute's examination. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 , the Saint Petersburg Soviet was established and met in the institute. Andrey Shevchik (Шевчик Андрей Павлович),
64-459: Was founded in 1828. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia, and currently trains around 5,000 students. In the past, the institute was named Imperial Petersburg Institute of Technology ( Russian : Императорский Петербургский Технологический Институт and Lensoviet Leningrad Institute of Technology ( Russian : Лениградский Технологический Институт имени Ленсовета ),
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