Contingency Planning: there is no one best way
There is no one-best-way
After the Second World War the managerial formalism was still the dominant view of organization and management. The previous management theories which were dominating the view of the organizations and management that created by the classical management theorists, such as Weber 's bureaucracy and Taylor 's scientific management.
Frederick Taylor, Industrial Engineer and the American classical theorist, who has coined the scientific management term. Taylor was refereeing to the study of work processes for the purpose of reducing time, maximizing the productivity of labor and minimizing all unnecessary movements. Taylor believes that “In a capitalist economy is that agreement can only be achieved through the application of power.”
Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber, German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist, Weber is known for Weberian bureaucracy. Weber continued his investigation into this matter in later works, notably in his studies on bureaucracy and on the classification of legitimate authority into three types – Rational-legal, traditional, and, finally, charismatic.
Weber believes that the history is shaped by material and economical forces, and concerned with officials, white-collars functionaries and administrators, who manage the planning and intellectual parts of the world of work. Source: Chris Smith, Professor of Organization Studies, Management and the Modern Corporations part one, chapter 4, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The management theorist Henry Mintzberg places his criticisms on Taylor’s theory. Mintzberg states that an obsession with efficiency allows measureable benefits to overshadow less quantifiable social benefits completely, and social values get left behind.
Robert Merton (1952) criticizes Weber’s bureaucracy by observing that the bureaucratic features, which Weber believes in enhancing rationality and efficiency, might actually be associated with irrationality and
After the Second World War the managerial formalism was still the dominant view of organization and management. The previous management theories which were dominating the view of the organizations and management that created by the classical management theorists, such as Weber 's bureaucracy and Taylor 's scientific management.
Frederick Taylor, Industrial Engineer and the American classical theorist, who has coined the scientific management term. Taylor was refereeing to the study of work processes for the purpose of reducing time, maximizing the productivity of labor and minimizing all unnecessary movements. Taylor believes that “In a capitalist economy is that agreement can only be achieved through the application of power.”
Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber, German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist, Weber is known for Weberian bureaucracy. Weber continued his investigation into this matter in later works, notably in his studies on bureaucracy and on the classification of legitimate authority into three types – Rational-legal, traditional, and, finally, charismatic.
Weber believes that the history is shaped by material and economical forces, and concerned with officials, white-collars functionaries and administrators, who manage the planning and intellectual parts of the world of work. Source: Chris Smith, Professor of Organization Studies, Management and the Modern Corporations part one, chapter 4, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The management theorist Henry Mintzberg places his criticisms on Taylor’s theory. Mintzberg states that an obsession with efficiency allows measureable benefits to overshadow less quantifiable social benefits completely, and social values get left behind.
Robert Merton (1952) criticizes Weber’s bureaucracy by observing that the bureaucratic features, which Weber believes in enhancing rationality and efficiency, might actually be associated with irrationality and