The development of PMS can be divided into several stages

The stage of traditional management from the end of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century, the stage of scientific management from the 1920s to the 1940s, the stage of modern management from the 1950s onwards, and the stage of management in the new century.

From the initial emergence of the separation of management functions from manual labor, management work performed by individual capitalists, to the separation of capitalists and managers, to the development of qualitative concepts of the economy into quantitative analysis, the use of mathematical decision-making methods, and the extensive use of electronic computers in the various management control, and finally, the human-centered and corporate culture management is the main focus of the new century management, came to prominence.