This week we learned
the basic management models and theories associated with motivation and
leadership. The professional knowledge include the classical management theory,
fundamental management priciples ,system theory ,theory of bureaucracy and
human relations theory ,etc .And our teacher focused on some well-known early
writers on management :Fredrick Winslow Taylor ,Henri Fayol, Max weber
,Henry ford .Fredrick Winslow Taylor :He was in the scientific management
school ,his emphases were on efficiency and productivity but he ignored many of
human aspects of employment.For the managers
,scientific management required them to set up a suitable organization to take all
responsibility from the workers except that of the actual job performance, select
and train the workers ,cooperate with them. For the workers scientific
management required them to ,give up their idea of wasting and cooperate with
the management in developing science .The benefits from this kind of management
can be summarized :It enabled employees to be paid by results and to take
advantage of incentive payments ,it stimulated management into adopting a more
positive role in leadership at shop floor level ,while the scientific
management technique has been employed to increase productivity and efficiency
both in private and public services ,it has also had the disadvantages of
ignoring many of the human aspects of employment . About Fayol gave much of the
basic terminology and concepts , which would be elaborated upon by future researchers .such
as division of labour . The disadvantage is absence of attention to issues such
as individual general interest and equity suggest that Fayol saw the employer
as paternalistic and by definition working in the employee’s interest .Theory
of Bureaucracy is the rational-legal authority from that exists in most
organisations today and this is the form to which Weber ascribed the term
“bureaucracy” .The advantage of this model is
appointment ,promotion and authority were dependent on technical
competence and reinforced by written rules and rules and procedures of
promoting those most able to manage rather than those favoured to manage.
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The
human relations theory where classical theorists were concerned with structure
and mechanics of organisations ,the theorists ,the theorists of human relations
were understandably ,concerned with the human factors ,the focus of human
relations theory is on motivation ,group motivation and leadership . The
process of motivation involves choosing between alternative forms of actn in
order to achieve some desired end or goal.
I like this post - again clear academic knowledge. It is good you have offered some criticisms of the theories here. One point is that you should always link your blogs to a specific business example
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