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| Classical Management Viewpoints |
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• Scientific Management
• Administrative Management |
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| Emphasizes ways to manage work more efficiently |
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Emphasizes scientific study of work methods to improve productivity in individual workers
Proponents: Fredrick W. Taylor
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth |
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| Administrative Management |
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Concerned with managing the entire organization
Proponents: Henri Fayol, Max Weber |
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| Principles of Scientific Management |
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1. Scientifically study each part of the task
2. Carefully select workers with the right abilities
3. Give workers the training and incentives to do the task
4. Use scientific principles to plan the work methods |
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– French engineer and industrialist
– First to identify the major functions of management |
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Term
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| • Max Weber believed that a bureaucracy was a rational, efficient, ideal organization based on the principles of logic |
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| Five Positive Bureaucratic Features |
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1. A well-defined hierarchy of authority
2. Formal rules and procedures
3. A clear division of labor
4. Impersonality
5. Careers based on merit |
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| The Problem with the Classical Viewpoint |
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• Mechanistic
• Tends to view humans as cogs within a machine, not taking into account the importance of human needs |
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| Why is the Classical Viewpoint Important? |
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• Work activity was amenable to a rational approach
• Through the application of scientific methods, time and motion studies, and job specialization it was possible to boost productivity |
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