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Under the SYSTEMS approach management

can be best described in the following way :

Management is a social system

Through
people
(operating
staf)

By
people
(manage
rs)

For people
(consumers)

For example:

Management is an open system

Interaction with the surrounding
environment
In other words, it has INPUTS AND
OUTPUTS
For eg:

Management is an
ADAPTIVE system

External
Enterprise
environment

EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT consists of :

Economic

Cultural

Socia
l

Politica

Management is a DYNAMIC
system

CHANGE

MANAGEMENT IS:
PROBABILITIC
MULTIDIMENSIONAL

Management System is
PROBABILISTIC

The principle do not

have universal
applicability .
Not deterministic

EXAMPLE:
Hindustan unilever ltd

MANAGEMENT IS
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL:
Micro approach: Can
be applied to
organisation

Macro approach: Can

be applied to whole
supra-system

EXAMPLE:
Macro
aspects

Micro
aspects

Tata
company

Any small
scale
organisatio
n

Management is an
integrated system
The inter related and
inter dependent parts of
the firm

Contingency Approach To
Management

Contingency Approach
basically states that the
organizations are diverse in
size , objectives , policies
and goals.
So its not possible to work
out universally applicable
principles that would work in
.

Contingency Approach
The environment impacts the
organization and the mangers must be
flexible to react to environmental
changes
The way the organization is designed ,
control systems selected etc. depends
upon the environment .
The technological environment changes
rapidly.
So we assume that there is no best way
to manage.

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