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Organization and Management Analysis
This essay is on organization and management analysis. I will show in detail about the various organizational theories. There will also be discussions on the comparisons of management theories and styles and which organizational theory resembles my organization. This essay is also on changes that could be made to make my organization better. There are many organization theories and management theories and these theories are a major part of the working world.
Organizational theories
Organizational theories are there so companies and figure out the issues that are going on. This can pin point specific issues and can figure out which theory is more suitable for this issue. Organizational theories show the different questions on how an organization works. Markgraf (2014), “organizations have structure, goals and members but focus on the efficiency of the organization, how it achieves its goals, how its environment affects its operations and how it survives in the face of outside challenges” (para. 2). These theories are used to test certain goals and business environment with the best structure that will help a company when challenges will come.
Classical organization theory
Classical organization theory has been around since the early 1900’s. This theory is associated with scientific management, bureaucratic theory, and administrative theory. A man named Frederick Taylor came up with scientific management theory in 1917 (Walonick, 1993). It was also called “Taylorism”. There are four principles to classical organizational theory. Find the “best way” to do the tasks, match workers to each task very carefully, use awards and punishment systems and supervise employees carefully, and planning and controlling (Walonick, 1993). Max Weber (1947) added on to Taylor’s theory. Weber came up with the bureaucratic theory, which had more “hierarchical structure of power” (Walonick,
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