LECTURE #1: CLASSICAL MANAGEMENT VIEWPOINTS

• Classical Viewpoint

  • Emphasizing finding ways to manage work more efficiently.
  • Assumes that people are rational.
  • Based on the belief that workers only have physical and economic needs.
  • Does not take into account social needs or job satisfaction.
• Bureaucratic Management Theory

  • Relates to the formal hierarchy in which many tasks are delegated to individuals and departments held together by a central administration.
  • Clear outline of division of labor, which is the defining and break-down of work into well-defined tasks, and delegated to be manageable. 
• Behavioral Management Theory

  • Uses the concept that all approaches to the workplace should be in the best interest of both company and workers.
• Human Relations Theory


  views a human with needs and desires.
• Soldering


  Deliberately working at less that full capacity (underperforming, loafing)
• Motion Studies


  Break down of each worker’s job into basic physical motions and train workers to use the methods of their best performing works.
• Differential Rate System


  More efficient workers earn higher wages.
• Fredrick Taylor


  Scientific Management
• Max Weber

  Bureaucratic Management Theory
• Behavioral Management Theory


  Chester Barnhard
• Human Relations Theory


  Mary Parker Follet
• Time and Motions Studies


  Gilbreth