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Management Theories

The Classical School of Management Theory

The Classical School is thought to have originated around the year
1900 and dominated management thinking into the 1920s, focusing on the
efficiency of the work process. It has three schools of thinking:
Bureaucratic management, which focuses on rules and procedures,
hierarchy and clear division of labour; Scientific management, which
looks at ?the best way? to do a job; and Administrative management,
which emphasises the flow of information within the organisation.

Classical management theory is now considered to be an outdated form
of management for the principal reason that people and their needs are
considered by Classical theorists as secondary to the needs of the
organisation. However, Classical management theory is important
because it introduced the concept of management as a subject for
intellectual analysis and provided a basis of ideas that have been
developed by subsequent schools of management thought.

Scientific Management

Frederick Taylor is known as the father of scientific management. His
approach emphasised empirical research to increase organisational
productivity by increasing the efficiency of the production process.
Scientific management theory states that jobs should be designed so
that each worker has a well-specified, well-controlled task and
specific procedures and methods for each job must be strictly
followed.

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