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    The document outlines four major management theories: 1) Scientific Management Theory developed by Frederick Taylor which promoted paying workers fairly for their work, 2) Bureaucratic Management Theory described by Max Weber which emphasizes clearly defined roles and hierarchies, 3) Human Relations Theories founded by Elton Mayo which focus on social and informal workplace groups, and 4) System Theory which takes a holistic view of organizational patterns and cycles.

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    The document outlines four major management theories: 1) Scientific Management Theory developed by Frederick Taylor which promoted paying workers fairly for their work, 2) Bureaucratic Management Theory described by Max Weber which emphasizes clearly defined roles and hierarchies, 3) Human Relations Theories founded by Elton Mayo which focus on social and informal workplace groups, and 4) System Theory which takes a holistic view of organizational patterns and cycles.

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    SCIENTIFIC

    MANAGEMENT
    THEORY
    • In 1909, Taylor published “The Principles of
    Scientific Management”.
    • Taylor believed that all workers were
    motivated by money, so he promoted the
    idea of “a fair day's pay for a fair day's
    work.”
    • Frederick taylor developed the scientific or
    classical management theory.
    • To make organizations more effective.
    • Managers are able to distill that helps them
    run their businesses more efficiently and
    profitably.
    • Worked for mechanized operations, but it
    did not do justice to the human element.
    BUREAUCRATIC
    MANAGEMENT
    THEORY
    • At the end of the 19th century, it was German sociologist and
    author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
    (1905), Max Weber who was the first to use and describe the
    term bureaucracy.
    • This is also known as the Bureaucratic Management Theory.
    • Stresses clearly designated roles for employees and
    management based on their hierarchies that streamune authority
    and make it clear.
    • Reduced simply to a mechanical, systematized approach to
    managing human beings.
    • He also wrote about the dangers inherent hierarchical
    bureaucracy.
    The following three elements support
    Bureaucratic Management:
    1. All regular activities within a bureaucracy
    can be regarded as official duties;
    2. Management has the authority to impose
    rules;
    3. Rules can easily be respected on the
    basis of established methods.
    HUMAN
    RELATIONSHIP
    THEORIES
    • Elton Mayo is considered the founder of the Human
    Relations Theory.
    • Prior to this trend, Elton Mayo already started an
    experiment in the Hawthorne experiment.
    • There was a great deal of discontent among the
    30,000 workers in the Hawthorne plants in Chicago
    in the early twenties of the lastcentury.
    • Elton Mayo and this assistant , including Fritz
    Roetlishberger, conducted research into changing
    working conditions.
    • Individual employees and a sense of
    belonging to a group;
    • Informal groups in the workplace have a
    strong influence on the behaviour of
    employees in said group;
    • Manager must take social needs, such as
    belonging to an (informal) group ,
    seriously.
    • Over the course of the 20th century,
    management systems became more human-
    centered.
    • Bringing out the potential of the people they
    employed.
    • Importance of aligning the needs of the
    workers.
    • Adopting policies aimed at their mutual benefit.
    SYSTEM
    THEORY
    • As a technical and general academic area of study it
    predominantly refers to the science of systems that resulted from
    Bertalanffy's General System Theory (GST), among others, in
    iniating what became a project of system research and practice.
    • Systems Theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems.
    • The term “general systems theory” orginates from Bertalanffy's
    general systems theory (GST).
    • His ideas were adopted by others including Kenneth E. Boulding,
    William Ross Ashby and Anatol Rapoport working in
    mathematics, psychology, biology, game theory and social
    network analysis.
    • Holistic patterns in scientific and
    metaphysical contexts.
    • Aims for achieving an integrated and
    balanced whole in business as well.
    • Understanding the cycles regulating a
    system's inputs and outcomes.
    • Recognizing and leveraging the particular
    patterns that a company's operations
    follow.
    • System theoretical approaches were later
    appropriated in the fiields, such as in the
    structural functionalist sociology of Talcott
    Parsons and Niklas Lihmann.
    • System Theory maintains of “ General System
    Theory “from German into english has
    “Wrought a certain amount of havoc”.
    • Systems Theory is the interdisciplinary study
    of systems.
    Answer the following:
    1-4. What are the 4 types of Management Theory?
    5.In what year Taylor published ”The Principles of Scientific
    Management”?
    6. What is the Theory that holistic patterns in scientific and
    metaphysical contexts?
    7. Who was the first to use and describe the term bureaucracy?
    8. Who considered the founder of the Human Relations Theory?
    9. It is the interdisciplinary study of systems.
    10. Who developed the Scientific Management Theory?
    Answer:
    1. Scientific Management Theory
    2. Bureaucratic Management Theory
    3. Human Relations Theories
    4. System Theory
    5. 1909
    6. System Theory
    7. Max Weber
    8. Elton Mayo
    9. System Theory
    10. Frederick Taylor

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