MGC1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hawthorne Effect, Industrial Revolution, Scientific Management
26 May 2018
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MGC1010 Week 2 - Evolution of Management
Historical evolutions in management
●Hawthorne studies
●Allow us to identify our mistakes and improve
●“High-order organisation”
●All civilisations and organisations exemplify fundamental managerial concepts
●Segregation by gender, culture and other means in order to maintain survival. This
was a form of management.
●In the past there were informal organisations which relied on informal practices.
●Management is evolution and progress at play.
There were multiple examples of management:
●Sumerians began management in bookkeeping
●The Egyptians created the pyramids (estimated 230000 workers 23 years to create the
pyramid of giza)
●Dutch East India Company
○7.4 trillion dollars in todays term vs Apple’s 750 billion
○Stringent managerial practices were necessary
Industrial revolution:
●Machines began to render people redundant (increased criminality, unemployment,
poverty.
PRE, AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY
●Germany had no one to rely on and fewer natural resources.
●US began to build status and power
●Landowners had the power over government and guided decisions (in Britain), but did
not progress because they “leeched” off of their economy.
●The US progressed because factory owners had wealth due to their constant attempts
to become more educated and increase profits.
Classical Approach
Scientific management
· Frederick Winston Taylor
●Father of scientific management
●Noted the lack of effectiveness and efficiency in workers soldiering on.
●Created a system to make ‘reproducible” days
●Alignment b/w managers and employees
· 4 principles
1. Develop a science and rules for each aspect of work
Document Summary
Allow us to identify our mistakes and improve. All civilisations and organisations exemplify fundamental managerial concepts. Segregation by gender, culture and other means in order to maintain survival. In the past there were informal organisations which relied on informal practices. Management is evolution and progress at play. The egyptians created the pyramids (estimated 230000 workers 23 years to create the pyramid of giza) 7. 4 trillion dollars in todays term vs apple"s 750 billion. Machines began to render people redundant (increased criminality, unemployment, poverty. Germany had no one to rely on and fewer natural resources. Us began to build status and power. Landowners had the power over government and guided decisions (in britain), but did not progress because they leeched off of their economy. The us progressed because factory owners had wealth due to their constant attempts to become more educated and increase profits. Noted the lack of effectiveness and efficiency in workers soldiering on.
