Robert owen, the pioneer of British management thought, was the first entrepreneur and reformer who paid attention to the position and role of people in enterprise management. His main idea is:

① Pay attention to human factors in factory management, and think that enterprises should devote themselves to the investment and development of human resources. He conducted a series of reform experiments in his own factory, such as improving workers' working conditions, shortening workers' working hours, raising the age of child workers, providing free meals and improving workers' housing conditions. Through the reform experiment, he thinks that paying attention to human factors and respecting people's status can make the factory get more profits.

(2) Adopt flexible and steady personnel management policies, such as not abusing workers, raising wages, caring for workers, and not dismissing workers, so that factories mainly live in harmony with workers. ?

(3) encourage the spirit of competition, rather than cruel punishment. For workers who don't work hard, Owen doesn't take corporal punishment and reprimand measures, but encourages competitive spirit with moral advice and respect for people's self-motivation. ?

Owen is called "the father of personnel management" because he first noticed the importance of human factors in improving labor productivity and took the lead in exploring personnel management. His thoughts had an important influence on the rise of behavioral science in western management theory.