Evolution of Theories of Management Flashcards
act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively.
Management
Who said that “Management is a distinct
process consisting of planning, organizing,
actuating and controlling, performed to determine and accomplish stated objectives by the use of human beings and other resources.”
George R. Terry
“To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control”
Henry Fayol
“Management is a multi-purpose organ that manage business and manages managers and manages workers and work.”
Peter Drucker
“Management is the art of getting things done through people.
Mary Parker Fallett
The Industrial Revolution revolves around maximizing efficiency and production. Centralized leadership simplifies decision-making, and a meritocratic chain of commands provides order and oversight.
Classical Management Theory
Addresses the organization’s human and social elements
Behavioral Management Theory
Followed on the heels of World War II and combines mathematical principles with sociology to develop holistic approaches to management.
Modern Management Theory
It help organizations to focus, communicate, and evolve. It allows leadership to focus on their main goals. It automatically streamlines the top priorities for the organization when implemented. It also allows us to better communicate with people we work with which in turn allows us to work more efficiently.
Management theories
They began to focus on optimizing the worker-task mix, which laid the foundation for modern management techniques.
Managers
It led to a shift from small-scale crafts production to large-scale mechanized manufacturing. This change created new challenges for managers, who needed to find ways to improve efficiency and manage social problems within their organizations.
Industrial Revolution
What year does the Industrial Revolution brought extraordinary change to the workplace and forever transformed the way companies operate?
Late 1700s to the early 1900s
He developed and published his Scientific Management Theory in 1909.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
father of scientific management, believed that efficiency could be increased by studying and redesigning the work process.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Tasks should be completed as ______
efficiently as possible
Everyone should be assigned a particular job based on their
skills and abilities
refined Taylor’s scientific management techniques by breaking down tasks into individual actions and analyzing them for efficiency.
The Gilbreths
The study of how to create an organizational structure that leads to high efficiency and effectiveness.
Administrative Management Theory
considered to be highly relevant even today. While scientific management focused on improving the efficiency of individual tasks, other researchers were studying how to create efficient organizational structures.
Administrative Management Theory
Who developed the Administrative Management Theory and what year
Henri Fayol in the early 1900s
developed the principles of bureaucracy to help Germany manage its growing industrial
enterprises during the industrial revolution.
Max Weber
These principles aimed to create an efficient and effective system of organization and administration
Bureaucratic Management Theory
The study of how managers should behave in order to motivate employees and encourage them to perform at high levels and be committed to the achievement of organizational goals.
Behavioural Management Theory
a pioneer in management theory, emphasized the human side of organizations.
Mary Parker Follett
She believed that workers should participate in job analysis and decision-making, as they
possess valuable knowledge about their tasks.
Mary Parker Follett
believed that all early management theories only focused on how money affects employee performance. There were more factors that influenced how employees behaved and performed at work.
Elton Mayo
