The History of Management:
Planning, Leading, Organizing, Controlling, Management:
Scientific Management: Frederick Taylor his ideas were specific worker roles, time and motion studies, reduces employee's laziness and those ideas were adopted by Henry Ford with the production line. Administrative Theory: Henry Fayol his fourteen universal principles of organization includes: organizational efficiency, chain of command, division of labor. Bureaucracy: rational authority and accountability, hierarchy of authority, decisions kept in writing. Workers Rights Movement: Mary Follett productivity is improved by considering the individuals: Working in groups results in a happy individuals, it increases efficiency,
QUESTION:
What factors influence the relationship between managers and workers then and now?
What do you think has stayed the same and what has changed? Give examples.
Helpful Question Notes: Is there a relationship between the type of work that employees perform and the way in which they are managed?
Is there a difference in how managers treat workers from various countries?
What factors influence the relationship between managers and workers?
Is there a consistency over time in what managers do?