Scientific Management

INTRODUCTION Traditionally, the term “management” refers to the activities (and often the group of people) involved in the four general functions: planning, organizing, leading and coordinating of resources. Note that the four functions recur throughout the organization and are highly integrated. Emerging trends in management include assertions that leading is different than managing and that…

Introduction Strategic formulation is the process of determining appropriate courses of action for achieving organisational objectives and thereby accomplishing organisational purpose. In a business context, it means what are the products and services the organisation will deliver, what type of market they will entry, which capabilities are required, how will they allocate the resources, and…

Introduction Describe the principal characteristics of the Weberian “ideal type” bureaucracy. What are the roles of power and authority in this model? Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the bureaucratic form of organization. Achieving the goal is the basic purpose of every organization. The management has to plan and find the way to reach this objective….

Introduction In his book, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Alfred Chandler writes about modern capitalism and the role large scale business enterprises as played in its transformation. Chandler is a renowned and distinguished business historian who as developed numerous ideas on the reasons why there is some type of dominance by…

Introduction Motivation is the factors that determine the grounds for engagement in a particular behavior by a person or persons. It attached with the beginning, route, the level of involvement and the sustaining at a particular level of behavior of a person. The grounds for a particular behavior may include the determinants which are varying…

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to identify the principles and various criticisms of Taylor’s scientific management and to discuss whether Frederick Taylor’s principles and ideas can be used successfully in today’s contemporary organizations. Fredrick Winslow Taylor (1856 – 1915), was a leading pioneer in the studies of management, and was often known as…

Introduction The global business environment is always changing. The changes are caused by various factors, such as customer behavior, technological innovation and, entry of new competitors in the market. Organizations often find themselves reacting to these changes by coming up with new strategies to gain competitive advantage. Strategies adopted by companies need proper planning for…

Introduction   The aim of this research is to critically evaluate the combination of two business strategy techniques; Porter’s Five Forces Analysis and the Strategic Group Analysis. The essay will often refer to these terms and it will be therefore pertinent to clarify these at this early stage. Current issues in the business world will…

Introduction One of the significant concepts in contemporary management is participative management (PM), their origin of which is traced by most writers in the academic literature to the post-World War II writings of scholars, such as Kurt Lewin, Douglas McGregor, Chris Argyris, H. Igor Ansoff, and Michael Porter (Kaufman , 2001). However, a number of…

Introduction The rapid increase in technology, economic downturn and globalization has led the businesses to reflect about their organizational goals and policies. It is of imperative importance that an organization knows where it is heading. Businesses may have cutting-edge technology, large customer base and skillful employees which are an asset for any organization but it…