Robert Owen

I had to choose a person related to the field I'm studying, who I admire , and I chose Robert Owen. He was a british philosopher businnesan and activist of socialism. He was a self-taught and He succeed as a businesman at the cotton industry. He owned and managed New Lanark textile factory for a few years, and meanwhile he introduced some changes in the industry to improve the situation of his employees, that was really preacarious at that time, because of the capitalism.
I admire him because at that time it was hard to find managers or businessmen who believed that it was possible to increase the production giving good conditions to work and a good treatment to their employees, and he did it and he demonstrated it.
I also admire his innovative skills because at the time that he was in charge of New Lanark, the management theory was very scarce, so he set a precedent in the implementation of some mechanisms that later would constitute fundamental concepts of management. So in spite that he didn't write any article he gave material to the next theorists specially to the the members of the human relations school who considered Owen as a pioneer of this management tendency whose contributions are recognized and studied untill these days.