User:Mdd/History of organization charting
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The history of organization charting refers here to origins and development of the design and use of organizational charts. Its history goes back to halfway the nineteenth century, but the picturing of authority go way back to the cradle of civilization.
The history of organization charting is divided here in an early history from the first civilisations up to the dawn of the modern society, and a modern history ever since. The modern history brought the intentional drive to picture company organization, and to make it a tool of management. The awareness grew, that organizational structure could be designed and optimized, and charts could visualize those structures.
The intention of most of the earlier works have often remained unknown, and are open to reinterpretation. Historical studies in the graphic history of organization and organizational theory are rare, and scattered. There is a general understanding, that Daniel McCallum drew one of the earliest organizational charts in American business.[1] However, what happened before and after, is still quite unclear.