Abstract—“Management” as a science, emerged late in the
19
th century, gained respect and peaked in academic world to
the end of 20
th century. Now, it is a fundamental school of
concept for all kind of works no matter of its orientation either
as business or engineering. In this paper, it is aimed to
emphasize popular managerial concepts and buzzwords with
ancient people sayings from Egypt, Babylonia, China, and
Greece. Accordingly, organization and departmentalization,
and human resources management in Ancient Egypt,
Hammurabi’s codes and its reflections to bureaucracy in
Ancient Babylonia, organizational strategy and ethics in
Ancient China, and division of labor, human resources
management and leadership in Ancient Greece are explored.
Index Terms—Management, ancient world, organizational
strategy.
Ezgi Yıldırım Saatci is with the Faculty of Economic and Administrative
Sciences of Okan University and managing director of Okan University
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility Research Center (e-mail:
ezgi.saatci@okan.edu.tr).
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Cite: Ezgi Yildirim Saatci, " Management through the Lenses of Ancient People," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 349-353, 2014.