Introduction

The administrative thought goes back to ancient times of history, because the human was created to tend earth, and endowed with the ability to plan, organize, lead, monitor, follow-up, coordinate, and employ the resources and development on the contrary to the rest of creatures of Allah, SWT.

The disposition, namely the Management, is but an innate state of the human being since Allah created Adam, Peace of Allah Be Upon Him, and this is intuitive and needs not any scientific or historic evidence. However, some of the scholars, like, Daniel Wren, (1993) had chronicled some historic stages. He attributed the development phases of management to the era of Sumer, 5000 years before the birth of Christ, PABUH, when they used documentation in the records to help the state and the business organizations back then in their administrative processes. Management had always been so crucial as well in the era of Pharaohs when they were building the pyramids, building one of which took about twenty years and tens of thousand of employees, and such large numbers of employees wouldn’t have achieved a project of such grandiose, precision, and beauty without directing, organizing, and creative and innovative thinking.

And in the Islamic history, administrative terminology and practices have come to the fore, including divine concepts, like Shura, and other concepts deducted by the Muslims, like, Dawaween, Auditing Diwan for example, etc. In the 17th century, the industrial revolution erupted and the thoughts of Adam Smith about productive efficiency found their way through the principles of specialization and division. Afterwards, with the advent of the 20th Century, the management and its theories started to take shape in the books, researches, universities, and scientific conferences through the classical schools, followed by the behavioral and modern theories. As to the classical theories, they were topped by the Theory of Scientific Management that was developed by Fredrick Taylor in 1911.