ADM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morale, Henri Fayol, Scientific Management

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: Matthew Archibald

Document Summary

Agenda: classical approach (1880-1920) -producivity, behavioural approach (1930"s) the humans mater, contemporary approaches (1950-1980"s) coningency thinking, open system, emerging pracices (1990"s 2000"s) . Systemaic management: adam smith 1776 the wealth of naions. Invisible hand theory: advocate of systemizaion (eiciency and efeciveness) + division of labour: breaking down/dividing of the enire task into specialized and speciic roles ex. If 1 person makes the enire pin-> 10 pins. Several people, one for each part (each person really good at their role) Producivity, eiciency: focused on deining duies and responsibiliies. Led to scieniic management (f. w. taylor= father of scieniic management): Study of the relaionships between people and tasks to increase eiciency. Results: each person was doing the task the same way. Best way to do task: ex: how much load should i use on my shovel, how is the shovel shaped? . Problems: doesn"t realize full potenial of humans, not encouraged to reach full potenial, human element not taken into.