CLASSICAL MANAGEMENT THEORY

HISTORYICAL CONTEXT

Late 1700 to late 1800

Primary sparks
Power
Machinery innovations
Transportation
Emerging issues
Large groups working together
People working alongside machinery
Increasing pace of industry
Companies were looking for answer
And because of this issues people are seeking for more answer
on how they will organize their businesses, how they going to
manage their people and how to maximize the productivity?

Those questions are answered by these three people who are

the founding fathers of the classical management theory.

Max Weber
Bureaucracy
 Oragnizations should look like the Government aand the
legal system
 Legal rational approach
 Not traditional family based leadership (were the head of
the family was in charge
 Not charisma-based leadership
His statement of this he explained that it is not the right way to
run a large business.
 If you are in a specific job role, stick to it
 Clear rules should govern performance
 Set a standard to hire and fire an employee
 Against biases or favoritism
 Max Weber said that it is nice to pick the best people

Frederick Taylor
Taylor on his side is more likely is a small things

Scientific Management
 Self-styled work as a serious problem. Stick to your own
role and not helping other is a problem. It is not the most
effecient way to do the tasks
 So what he do is he popularized the time and motion studies
 He study of how to reduce time in every tasks should
take and reduce motion in every tasks should take to
speed things up and come up….
 With the one right way..
 According to him, in each tasks we must take a small
steps and standardize each steps.
 Do all tasks the new one right way
Henri Fayol
He bases in management. On how to manage people

Administrative science or classical management

 Managers needed to be more trained in much more
systematic principles .
Management Activities
 Manager should take a plan, look ahead and chart a course
for organization
 Organization (key to management activity) should select and
arrange people in orderly and efficient
 Managers should take a lead, command and drive the
process
 Managers should coordinate and needed to harmonize and
facilitate to the general activities
 Managers should control and ensure the compliance on
everything from quality control, accounting, finances, and
the technical sides and other areas.

COMMONALITIES AND OVERLAP BETWEEN TAYLOR AND FAYOL

 Clear hierarchy in an organization
 Division of labor
 Standardizes approach to work
 Centralization of authority largely in managers hand
 Separation of personal and work life
 Select the beast employees
 Wanted people tp paid fairly so you can attract and keep
your best.