GMS 200 Chapter 2: GMS CHAPTER TWO

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

Document Summary

Classical management approaches: scieniic management (frederick taylor, administraive principles (henri fayol, bureaucraic organizaion (max weber) Figure 2. 1 - major branches in the classical approach to management. Moion study the science of reducing a task to its basic physical moions. 4. and writen iles are kept for historical record. Figure 2. 3 foundaions in the behavioural or human resource approaches to management. Groups are mechanisms through which individuals can combine their talents for a greater good. Organizaions are cooperaing communiies of managers and workers. Manager"s job is to help people in the organizaion cooperate and achieve an integraion of interests. Making every employee an owner creates a sense of collecive responsibility (precursor of employee ownership, proit sharing, and gain-sharing) Business problems involve a variety of inter-related factors (precursor of systems thinking) Private proits relaive to public good (precursor of managerial ethics and social responsibility) Iniial study examined how economic incenives and physical condiions afected worker output.