Management development can be briefly divided into three phases:
1) Classical management
2) Modern Management
3) Contemporary management
1. Classical management theory
(1)Scientific Management
  Frederick Taylor, 'the father of scientific management' as the management of science and emphasized the role of the first managers.
  Taylor to reduce costs and improve productivity for the purpose of analysis of tasks and methods of scientific experiments, and thus opened up a new era of industrial management.
  Scientific management theory is not only promoted the development of traditional industries, and the organizational structure of the West set up a cultural foundation, as well as organizational behavior research laid the foundation.
(2)General Management
  Henry. Fayol, the father of management theory.
  Fayol to enterprises for the study that management theory is a universal experience in testing and demonstration of a set of principles, standards, methods, procedures, etc. of the complete system. Management theory and methods, therefore applies not only to enterprises, but also to military and political authorities and social groups, this is Fayol cornerstone of the theory of general management.
Fayol's contribution lies in three aspects:
1) independent from the operating functions of management activities
2) stressed the need for education
3) management activities of the five required functions and 14 principles.
  Fayol analysis of all the activities of the enterprise will operate and manage the distinction between that business activities including:
1) Technical
2) Commercial
3) Financial
4) Safety
5) Accounting
6) Management
  Fayol that management is generally a separate activity, has its own set of knowledge systems, a variety of functions by composition, management is management by completing a variety of functions to achieve the objectives of a process.
  Business activities in each group corresponds to a specific capacity, such as technical capability, business capability, financial capability, management capability. With small to large enterprises, the number of jobs from low to high, the necessary management capacity in the capacity of managers in increasing the relative importance, while others, such as technical, commercial, financial, security, accounting and so on will be the relative importance of the ability decline.
  Fayol management capabilities that can be obtained through education, lack of management education is the absence of management theory, each manager in accordance with his own method, principles and personal experience to act, but no one has managed to make it acceptable to those who have been rules and management experience into a general theory.
2. Modern management theory
  Modern management theory mainly refers to behavioral science and management theory jungle school stage school of behavioral science research individual behavior, group behavior and organizational behavior, attention to studying the psychological, behavioral, such as the efficient influence the realization of the role of organizational goals.
Behavioral science are the main results of the interpersonal theory of Mayo, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Hertzberg’s two-factor theory, McGregor's 'X Theory-Y theory' and so on. 
  40 to 80’s, in addition to behavioral science school has been developed by leaps and bounds, many management scholars have different perspectives from their own to express their views on management. One of the major representatives of this school are:
1) the management process school
2) Management Science School
3) School social systems
4) Decision-making Theory School
5) School systems theory
6) School of empiricism
7) The role of school managers
8) Such as contingency theory school of thought
  These schools of thought of many research methods, management theory is not unified, the various schools of thought have their own representatives, have their own terms the meaning advocated by their own theories, concepts and methods, management theory Koontz called the jungle.