The purpose of this research is to standardize a chronological analysis of the stages of administration until reaching its current systemic approach. It begins with the precursors of the administration from the Chinese civilization in which the foundations of a pragmatic approach were laid and addresses the different stages that led humanity towards the industrial revolution when the machines replaced labor force. The article presents a critical analysis of the emergence of the scientific administration as a response to the growing demand for more human and social styles to organize the administrative work by applying a methodological analysis of each stage of the management theories under the vision of a systemic approach, detecting the characteristics that were contributing to the construction of the new models and their outcome in the current models with a systemic approach, reviewing from the principles of the scientific administration that were established by Taylor, until the criticism that indicated the lack of attention of the different psychological and social factors that are related to the human being. From this, it can be concluded that the new systemic approach is the result of a process of evolution of the administrative theory, as well as of the analysis of the adaptation and tropicalization of each administrative school with respect to the needs of each era, but with a vision of the future that may lead to a utopia with certain degree of realism.
