It can be deducted that from earliest recorded times groups of people have been organized to work together towards planned goals. Their efforts coordinated and controlled to achieve such outcomes. Though the term "scientific management" did not come into being well into the Industrial Revolution (the latter half of the 19th century) it's history is, on reflection, much longer than the term itself.

Consider the management skills required by the ancient Egyptians to build their pyramids, by the ancient Chinese to build the Great Wall, the management skills of the Mesopotamians to irrigate their land and wall their cities, of the Romans when building their roads, acqueducts and Hadrian's Wall.
All these man-made constructions required large amounts of human effort and therefore organization, i.e. planning, controlling and coordination.
The Great Pyramid for example is 75,600 square feet at it's base, 480 feet high, and contains over 2 million blocks of stone, each weighting 2.5 tons. The base of the structure is only 7 inches from being a perfect square. All this with no computer, electronic calculator, modern materials, handling equipment or advanced mathematical techniques


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