Management Theories Timeline
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Foundations of Management Theories
CLASSICAL VIEWPOINT
ABS
HUMANISTIC VIEWPOINT
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE VIEWPOINT
CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINT
CDS
Rationality and making workers as EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE.
CLASSICAL VIEWPOINT
Father of Scientific Management
FREDERICK TAYLOR
The use of scientific methods to define the “one best way”
for a job to be done.
= analyzing who should do which job, which tools, instructions and motivating them only with money.
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
Developed the four principles of scientific management:
✓ Developed the theory to counter _____.
✓ Careful _____ and _____ of workers.
✓ _____ between superior and workers.
✓ Proper _____ of work and _____ between
management and workers.
SOLDIERING
SELECTION & TRAINING
COOPERATION
DIVISION
RESPONSIBILITY
Workers would intentionally work at a SLOWER pace to AVOID producing too much and setting HIGHER EXPECTATIONS from management.
SOLDIERING
STANDARDIZED tasks, and WAGE INCENTIVES to increase productivity and eliminate soldiering.
FRANK AND LILIAN GILBRETH
TIME AND MOTION STUDIES
GANTT CHART (GOALS VS ACTUAL PROGRESS + DEADLINES) used as a graphic aid for
planning, scheduling, and control.
HENRY L. GANTT
Limitations of Scientific
Management
Limitations:
* OVERLOOKED the SOCIAL NEEDS of people
* “UNIFORM” TREATMENT of workers
* Treated men as just “RATIONAL” BEINGS (economic man)
overly concerned with PROCEDURE at the expense of efficiency or common sense.
Bureaucratic Management
a German sociologist
who coined bureaucracy.
MAX WEBER
LABOR
IMPERSONALITY
HIERARCHY
MERIT
Focuses on the principles that can be used by management to COORDINATE the INTERNAL activities of an organization as a WHOLE.
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT
HENRI FAYOL
Fayol’s 14 Principles of Management
specialization (mastery of the skill) increases
output by making employees more efficient.
managers must be able to give orders, and _______
gives them this right.
employees must obey and respect the rules that
govern the organization.
every employee should receive orders from
only ONE SUPERIOR