Editing Organizational chart (section)

== History ==
The Scottish-American engineer [[Daniel McCallum]]  (1815–1878) is credited for creating the first organizational charts of American business<ref>[[Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.]] (1962). ''Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.</ref> around 1854.<ref>Burton S. Kaliski (2001). ''Encyclopedia of business and finance''. p.669.</ref><ref>For years people believed no copy of this chart survived, see for example: Sidney Pollard, Richard S. Tedlow (2002) ''Economic History''. p. 18</ref> This chart was drawn by [[George Holt Henshaw]].<ref>[[Caitlin Rosenthal]] (2012), [http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/big_data_in_the_age_of_the_telegraph Big data in the age of the telegraph], ''McKinsey Quarterly'', March 2013.</ref>

The term "organization chart" came into use in the early twentieth century. In 1914 [[Willard C. Brinton|Brinton]]<ref>[[Brinton, Willard Cope]]. ''Graphic methods for presenting facts''. The Engineering magazine company, 1914.</ref> declared "organization charts are not nearly so widely used as they should be. As organization charts are an excellent example of the division of a total into its components, a number of examples are given here in the hope that the presentation of organization charts in convenient form will lead to their more widespread use." In those years industrial engineers promoted the use of organization charts.

In the 1920s a survey revealed that organizational charts were still not common among ordinary business concerns, but they were beginning to find their way into administrative and business enterprises.<ref>[[Alexander Hamilton institute]] (1923) ''[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35128001192606 Organization charts].'' p. 6</ref>

The term "organigram" originated in the 1960s.<ref>Angus Stevenson (2010) ''Oxford Dictionary of English''. p. 1252</ref>