Management development review notes

To manage Is to forecast and plan, to command, to co-ordinate and to control Management Is a kindly process which consists of planning, control, co-ordination and motivation Kenton & online 1976 Managing Is an operation process Minimally best dissected by analyzing the managerial functions.The essential managerial functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and leading, controlling. Classical schooling Payolas 14 principles of management many still true but was very structural and paternalistic. Scientific Management FEW Taylor 1911 the principles of scientific management. Breaking the job bulge out into movements and timing how long it took. Criticized for turning workers into automatons. Concept of Bureaucracy Max Weber 1947 The theory of social and economic organizations describes the bureaucratic organizationA bureaucracy is based on rational-legal countenance which arises out of the office or position of the person in authority. Weber believed that bureaucrac y Is the most efficient means of organizing for the achievement of formal goals. Elton Mayo 1927-1936 hawthorn Studies/experiments social relations at work are as Important as monetary Incentives and good physical working conditions Human Relations School.