Venetians civilization (500 A.D. 1500 A.D.)

Venetian identity is deeply rooted in very ancient times, prior to roman conquers: the civilization of ancient Venetians (or Venetkens) which lasted for over 1.000 years. Venetians used organization design and planning concepts to control the seas. They needed to manage the sea for their construction. They developed double entry book keeping for the record of their entry. They were more advanced in planning, organization and controlling. Gradually they developed the thought of management.

Conclusion

Looking at the entire continuum of management thought during this early period of history, we can conclude that management was strictly on a trial and error basis, with little or no theory and virtually no exchange of ideas and practices. Perhaps inadequate records, poor communication and failure to analyze the reasons for non-success lay behind this lack of profiting from the earlier experience of others. Evidence of managerial practices clearly indicate, however, that some principles of management were recognized in these early times and communicated at least locally on a how to do it basis.In general, it appears that the managerial principles employed were born out of necessities of having to accomplish goals, and these principles were discovered over and over again by numerous individuals in history as they went about attempting to reach needed objectives.Thus, in these early times, management thought existed, but only in a somewhat nebulous and unsophisticated state. Management as a separate process was not verbalized until Plato and Socrates. Even then, the principles were not united in a scheme of management thought, nor in there evidence of any chronological and building of various managerial techniques upon previously conceived ones.