Contemporary Approaches to Management:
There are four Approaches to Management that have been utilized over time.
The first approach to discuss would be the Systematic; This approach was used primarily in the 19th century during the Industrial revolution. It was simple to meet the high consumer demand and production of the era, Business would set much defined duties and procedures for employees, they would then define the task of these defined duties. In today’s terms this may be considered an early for of micro-management. Management would then have very specific and deliberate ways of gathering, handling and analyzing information. Everything was very controlled and specific in it processes. This made for less time worrying about employees and worrying about internal issues and efficiency.
Fredrick Taylor Felt this system was not very effective due to low production and pay.
He determined to reach better production levels that research needed to be done to better able understand all aspect of how to better manage these process. He determined that management should use a scientific approach for each element of one’s work, they should scientifically select, train, teach and develop workers, and that management should cooperate with workers to meet objectives, and divide duties among managers and works evenly. Lillian Gilbreth looked at this method and took it to the next level utilizing her degree psychology to concerning herself more about the works over all well being to promote higher production.
Max Weber a German Socialist decided that Bureaucracy was the best manner to take on management to take out variables of the individual person that could reduce performance.
HE did this by organizing Management into several specific and defined levels of hierarchy.
He thought that Division of Labor, Authority, Qualifications, Ownership, Rules and controls was the most effective way of keeping variables such as a manageress capabilities ( strength and