Development of Management Thought

CLASSICAL THEORIES OF MANAGEMENT

List the names of prominent classic management theorists

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of classic management theories

Describe the importance of theories

Cite applications of classic theories in your field of profession

Scientific Management TheoristsFrederick W. TaylorFrank & Lillian Gilbreth

General Administrative TheoristsHenri FayolMax Weber

Management- a set of activities directed towards efficient and effective utilization of organizational resources in order to achieve organizational goals ( Sapre, 2002:102 )

Educational Management- executive function for carrying out agreed policy ( Bolam, 1999:194)

Educational Management- a field of study and practice concerned with the operation of educational organizations ( Bush, 2003 )

Consistency and reduce duplication of similar explanation

Familiarity with arguments

Identifying relevant phenomena

Insights enable to deploy wide ranges of experience and understanding

Provides framework for interpreting events

Different context in appropriate area

Revealing needed research

Theory APPLICATION ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE

ScientificManagement Theory-Machine metaphor,Time and motion are factors to determine the most efficient method to complete the task

Less time with fewer or shorter motion emphasizing on maximum production of individual worker

Factory: Assembly line to systematicwork

Home : Schedule monitoring of activities

Company : Managers select, train and closely monitor subordinates

Repetition improves techniques and methodsStandard working environmentPeople get promoted based on skills and efficiency

Workers are paid based on quantity output

People are to be manipulated like machines

Workers not allowed to choose their jobs and method and train themselves

People get tired

Theory APPLICATION ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE

Bureaucracy-Hierarchal authority structure withemphasis on rules instead of individuals and competence of leaders over favouritism. Positions are organized into a hierarchy.

Home: Father is the disciplinarian.Strictimplementation of curfews for children. Oldest child is chosen to help younger siblings

Company: Top positions are appointed through legal channels. Communication structure is observed

Division of work clearly defines responsibility.

Personnel are selected for competence avoiding time wasted

Continuity of administration is provided

Impersonalrelationships between managers and staffs, staff and clients , parent and children create feelings of alienation

Officials makes fixed salaries for prescribed works

Takes time to reach the intended authorities

Theory APPLICATION ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE

AdministrativeManagement-All managers regardless of the type of organization have the same tasks which includes planning, organizing, commanding, coordination and controlling.General principles of administration division of work, centralizations, locust control

Home: Usually mothers are multitasking

Company: Managers focus on the process of implementing the organizational policies, goals and objectives frequently monitoring the achievement of these goals.

Workers receive direct command from one superior which readily gets the job done.

Workers are encourage to think through and carry out the plans.

Encourages group harmony “ a place for everything and everything in its place”

Managerswelcome suggestions but basically stick to the plans

Personnel trainings and development are neglected.

Environment creates the feeling of competition

Theory- ManagementStyle is dependent on one’s philosophy of human

APPLICATION ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE

XPeople dislike work, avoid responsibility, believe that achievement is irrelevant, dull and uncreative, money is the reason for working, lack desire to improve quality and must be directed

Home: parents do underestimates the households members

Company:Managers controls, coerced and threatened subordinates, supervise closely

Unqualified workers, laymen and beginners learn to follow

Handicap, mentally disabled individuals learn to function

Inhumanetreatment

Failure to discover and use the potentials of personnel

Y Home: Parents Workers are Unpredictable

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