THE IMPACT OF KURT LEWIN ON MANAGEMENT THOUGHT.
Влияние Курта Левина на управленческую мысль
1973-08-01
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Kurt Lewin has had a significant impact upon modern management. His concepts are widely used and his students are among the dominant contributors to human relations, personnel and industrial psychology. Yet many students of management are completely unaware of Lewin and his contributions. His name is seldom mentioned in texts dealing with management or personnel relations. The failure to recognize Lewin's role in the evolving field of management is a serious neglect, for his philosophy of science, research methodology and approach provide a potential for advancing the discipline of management. Kurt Lewin was an innovative researcher whose ingenuity in experimental design provides a scientific basis for many of our current concepts. It is this writer's express purpose in this paper to draw attention to Lewin and his work so that serious students of management will be stimulated to study them. Lewin's contribution to management thought are intimately related to his other work. He was a
Key Findings
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Kurt Lewin significantly influenced modern management through concepts widely applied in human relations, personnel, and industrial psychology.
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Lewin’s philosophy of science, research methodology, and innovative experimental designs provide a scientific foundation for contemporary management concepts and potential advances in the discipline.
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Lewin’s students became prominent contributors to human relations, personnel, and industrial psychology, extending his influence across management-related fields.
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Management textbooks and personnel-relations literature seldom acknowledge Lewin, representing a significant omission in the history of management thought.
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The paper aims to increase recognition of Lewin’s work and encourage management scholars to study its relevance to management thought.
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Kurt Lewin's contributions and work in management thought
Research Subject
The impact and significance of Lewin's philosophy of science, research methodology, and experimental design for the development of management thought
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