Management History

History
Chapter 2
Management
Stephen P. Robbins Mary Coulter
tenth

edition

Outcomes Follow this Learning Outline as you read and study this

chapter.

2.1 Historical Background Of Management.
Explain why studying management history is important.
Describe some early evidences of management practice.
Describe two important historical events that are significant to the study of management.
2.2 Classical Approach.
Describe the important contributions made by Frederick W. Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
Discuss Fayol’s and Weber’s contributions to management theory.
Explain how today’s managers use scientific management and general administrative theory.

Outcomes
2.3 Quantitative Approach.
Explain what the quantitative approach has contributed to

the field of management.
Describe total quality management.
Discuss how today’s managers use the quantitative approach.
2.4 Behavioral approach.
• Describe the contributions of the early advocates of OB.
• Explain the contributions of the Hawthorne Studies to the field of management.
• Discuss how today’s managers use the behavioral approach.

Outcomes

2.5 Contemporary Approach
Describe an organization using the systems approach.
Discuss how

the systems approach helps us understand management.
Explain how the contingency approach is appropriate for studying management.

Background of Management
Ancient Management
Egypt (pyramids) and China (Great Wall)
Venetians (floating

warship assembly lines)
Adam Smith
Published The Wealth of Nations in 1776
Advocated the division of labor (job specialization) to increase the productivity of workers
Industrial Revolution
Substituted machine power for human labor
Created large organizations in need of management

2–1 Major Approaches to Management

Approaches to Management
Classical
Quantitative
Behavioral
Contemporary

Management
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
The “father” of scientific management
Published Principles of Scientific

Management (1911)
The theory of scientific management
Using scientific methods to define the “one best way” for a job to be done:
Putting the right person on the job with the correct tools and equipment.
Having a standardized method of doing the job.
Providing an economic incentive to the worker.

2–2 Taylor’s Scientific Management Principles
Develop a science for each

element of an individual’s work, which will replace the old rule-of-thumb method.
Scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the worker.
Heartily cooperate with the workers so as to ensure that all work is done in accordance with the principles of the science that has been developed.
Divide work and responsibility almost equally between management and workers. Management takes over all work for which it is better fitted than the workers.

Administrative Theory
Henri Fayol
Believed that the practice of management was distinct

from other organizational functions
Developed principles of management that applied to all organizational situations
Max Weber
Developed a theory of authority based on an ideal type of organization (bureaucracy)
Emphasized rationality, predictability, impersonality, technical competence, and authoritarianism

Management (cont’d)
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Focused on increasing worker productivity through

the reduction of wasted motion
Developed the microchronometer to time worker motions and optimize work performance
How Do Today’s Managers Use Scientific Management?
Use time and motion studies to increase productivity
Hire the best qualified employees
Design incentive systems based on output

2–3 Fayol’s 14 Principles of

Management

Division of work
Authority
Discipline
Unity of command
Unity of direction
Subordination of individual interests to the general interest

Remuneration
Centralization
Scalar chain
Order
Equity
Stability of tenure of personnel
Initiative
Esprit de corps

2–4 Weber’s Bureaucracy

Approach to Management
Quantitative Approach
Also called operations research or management science
Evolved

from mathematical and statistical methods developed to solve WWII military logistics and quality control problems
Focuses on improving managerial decision making by applying:
Statistics, optimization models, information models, and computer simulations

2–5 What Is Quality Management?
Intense focus on the customer
Concern

for continual improvement
Process-focused
Improvement in the quality of everything
Accurate measurement
Empowerment of employees

Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior (OB)
The study of the actions of

people at work; people are the most important asset of an organization
Early OB Advocates
Robert Owen
Hugo Munsterberg
Mary Parker Follett
Chester Barnard

2–6 Early Advocates of OB

series of productivity experiments conducted at Western Electric from 1924

to 1932.

Experimental findings
Productivity unexpectedly increased under imposed adverse working conditions.
The effect of incentive plans was less than expected.

Research conclusion
Social norms, group standards and attitudes more strongly influence individual output and work behavior than do monetary incentives.

The Hawthorne Studies

Systems Approach
System Defined
A set of interrelated and interdependent parts arranged

in a manner that produces a unified whole.
Basic Types of Systems
Closed systems
Are not influenced by and do not interact with their environment (all system input and output is internal).
Open systems
Dynamically interact to their environments by taking in inputs and transforming them into outputs that are distributed into their environments.

2–7 The Organization as an Open

System

of the Systems Approach
Coordination of the organization’s parts is essential

for proper functioning of the entire organization.
Decisions and actions taken in one area of the organization will have an effect in other areas of the organization.
Organizations are not self-contained and, therefore, must adapt to changes in their external environment.

Contingency Approach
Contingency Approach Defined
Also sometimes called the situational approach.
There is

no one universally applicable set of management principles (rules) by which to manage organizations.
Organizations are individually different, face different situations (contingency variables), and require different ways of managing.

2–8 Popular Contingency Variables
Organization size
As size increases, so do the problems

of coordination.
Routineness of task technology
Routine technologies require organizational structures, leadership styles, and control systems that differ from those required by customized or non-routine technologies.
Environmental uncertainty
What works best in a stable and predictable environment may be totally inappropriate in a rapidly changing and unpredictable environment.
Individual differences
Individuals differ in terms of their desire for growth, autonomy, tolerance of ambiguity, and expectations.

to Know
division of labor (or job specialization)
Industrial Revolution
scientific management
therbligs
general administrative

theory
principles of management
bureaucracy

quantitative approach
organizational behavior (OB)
Hawthorne Studies
system
closed systems
open systems
contingency approach

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