Scientific Management and Human Relations Approaches in 21st Century
FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN RELATIONS APPROACHES IN 21st CENTURY ESSAY NAME: NGUYỄN THỊ PHƯƠNG LINH CLASS: FB3-A1
MENTOR: Dr. NGUYỄN THU THỦY Mr. HOÀNG ANH DUY (MBA)
DATE: 2012
INTRODUCTION
Organization is a group of at least two people intentionally organized to accomplish specific goals. Therefore, this leads to the appearance of management and organizational behavior theory with a view to developing an organization. In which, management is the process of working with people and a variety of resources such as human, information, facilities, etc in order to achieve organizational goals while organizational behavior as J. & Davis, K. (1993) showed that is “the study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals and groups act in organizations”. These methods had further been developed which resulted in Scientific Management as well as Human Relations approaches which exist in a large number of organizations and play an important role in making organizations successful. Notwithstanding, there are significant modifications in the way modern organizations work placed alongside traditional organizations. Hence, this raises a question of whether Scientific Management and Human Relations approaches are still applicable in 21st –century organizations. This essay provides detailed information about these theories as well as the analysis of their advantages and disadvantages. Thereby, their application will be indicated and evaluated so as to find out whether they are appropriate to modern organization or not.
CONTENT A. Scientific Management: 1.
FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN RELATIONS APPROACHES IN 21st CENTURY ESSAY NAME: NGUYỄN THỊ PHƯƠNG LINH CLASS: FB3-A1
MENTOR: Dr. NGUYỄN THU THỦY Mr. HOÀNG ANH DUY (MBA)
DATE: 2012
INTRODUCTION
Organization is a group of at least two people intentionally organized to accomplish specific goals. Therefore, this leads to the appearance of management and organizational behavior theory with a view to developing an organization. In which, management is the process of working with people and a variety of resources such as human, information, facilities, etc in order to achieve organizational goals while organizational behavior as J. & Davis, K. (1993) showed that is “the study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals and groups act in organizations”. These methods had further been developed which resulted in Scientific Management as well as Human Relations approaches which exist in a large number of organizations and play an important role in making organizations successful. Notwithstanding, there are significant modifications in the way modern organizations work placed alongside traditional organizations. Hence, this raises a question of whether Scientific Management and Human Relations approaches are still applicable in 21st –century organizations. This essay provides detailed information about these theories as well as the analysis of their advantages and disadvantages. Thereby, their application will be indicated and evaluated so as to find out whether they are appropriate to modern organization or not.
CONTENT A. Scientific Management: 1.
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