GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Henri Fayol, Egyptian Pyramids, Management Science

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Classical approach to management: scientific management: supervisory support. It is also to create standards, rules and regulations. In a way, it is a more systematic approach to management. To carefully select and train workers and to receive: administrative principles: engineer henri fayol. There are 14 principles developed by the french: bureaucratic organization: because of how levels and status became something common in the german society. Because of that he created logical, orderly and rational organizational theory or form. The bureaucratic organization paved its way in: assumptions of classical approach: People will rationally consider available opportunities and do whatever is necessary to achieve the greatest personal economic gain. Key driver behind the development of management as a science: the development of management theories was partly driven by the demand for well-trained, professional managers. Workers need to be monitored closely by a manager. Too much pressure on workers as they are shoved to.