Management School of Thought

The University of Massachusetts suffered a major ERP failure in 2003. The university had begun work on the $10 million dollar project in 2000 as a replacement for the older ERP system (Rico, 2010). Under the previous system, each of the five University of Massachusetts’s campuses had its own systems that included the software, hardware, and project teams. Each was independently ran, modified, and maintained by its respected campus. The University of Massachusetts identified the need for a centralized ERP system that could standardize the many processes within it across all the campuses.

The management process school views management as a process of getting things done with people working in organized groups. Fathered by Henri Fayol, this school views management theory as a way of organizing experience for practice, research and teaching.  It begins by defining the functions of management.

Controlling- Controlling is a backward looking plan as it analyzes if the actual results are in accordance with the planned results. First of all, performance standards are established then actual results are measured, after this follows the comparisons of the planned and actual results and figure out deviations, if any and lastly corrective actions are being taken to avoid such deviations in the future. Dell is a consumer-friendly brand and to maintain its competitive edge in the market it provides after sales services and asks consumers for their valuable feedback to maintain the quality of their products (Rogers, et al., 2006).

We can safely state that no single theory of management is universally accepted today. To provide a useful historical perspective that will guide our study of modern management, we shall discuss five different approaches to management : (1) the universal process approach, (2) the operational approach, (3) the behavioral approach, (4) the systems approach, and (5) the contingency approach. Understanding these general approaches to the theory and practice of management can help you appreciate how management has evolved, where it is today, and where it appears to be headed. Each of the five approaches to management represents a different conceptual framework for better understanding the practice of management.

This report will be look into extent to which the Managerial Escalator, the Managerial Hybrid and Managerial Gap (Rees and Porter, 2008) fits in the experience of two managers. This report focus on two parts; firstly on giving the details on theories explained by Rees and Porter. Secondly this report will analyze and discuss the results from both managers with managerial responsibilities, their process to achieve current position, difficulties in the role of being manager, what motivate them to work and if they got support from their mentors etc. It was found that their working styles match the concept of managerial escalator.

Theories gave organizations a framework for knowledge and a guide to achieving their goals. The Industrial Revolution prompted the need for better supervision of workers to boost productivity within the automobile, steel, and coal industries. It is because of this need that the various theories of management began to take shape.

After reviewing reports and conducting interviews with staff members, I have concluded that as an organization, we need to reform company policies. New policies provide management with an opportunity to improve areas, that we struggled with in the past. In order to meet the competitive and social challenges of 2016 and beyond, we must examine ways to increase profits, improve services, increase productivity, and improve the overall morale of our employees. As individuals, we possess different belief systems, which guide us through our daily routines, and help us to interact with others.

We are now seeing the use of technology applications for disease self-management and patient empowerment yielding the potential to improve the overall state of a person’s health care. When these apps are also coupled with telehealth interventions, a unique opportunity is created that enables proactive interventions to improve compliance with medications, as well as shared decision-making by both patients and clinicians – core principles to support best practice models in managing these chronic respiratory disease states (9-11). For example, patient-generated data from mobile apps can be directly transmitted to a patient’s team of clinicians (for example, a medical home) where the data

Management has experienced remarkable shifts in the way that organizations conduct business particularly in the last century, due to the evolving workplace as well as tremendous changes in the roles of leaders in organizations. Early managers often relied on authoritative tactics to get the job done, which we have learned from history does not work very well for many modern organizations. In this paper, I will be analyzing the management approach my organization takes and whether this is the best approach to meet organizational goals and whether or not my organization may benefit from adopting a different approach or combining multiple approaches.

The fact that human relation approaches can really enhance the performance control for an organisation is undisputable however it will bring some negative impacts to an organisation at the same time. Human relations theories revolve broadly around fulfilling employees’ needs as an individual in correlation to their job performance. Therefore, individualism could also indirectly cause the breakdown of cooperation as well as social cycle. For instance, Maslow’s and Herzberg’s theory which mentioned about reward as motivator

In a historical aspect the evolution of management consist of six approaches starting with America’s Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century to the present: Classical, Behavioral, Quantitative, Systems, Contingency and Quality. Before the creation of factories the need for managerial skills was not needed, since products and services were delivered on a small scale and by hand. But with the invention of engines that did not require rivers to make them run, companies started to create factories to produce products in mass quantities requiring a need for more knowledge in the field of management.

The classical management theory focuses on finding the “one best way” to accomplish and manage task (p.37,2008. W.Plunkett, R. Attner, G. Allen). The behavioral management theory recognizes employees as individuals with real human needs. It is very important for the manager to establish trusted relationships and value his/her

We can define the management theories as a group of policies, ideas, and procedures that help the management to manage the business. Also, management theories help the managers to know and clearly stating the overall organization’s goals and targets and define the ways to how to achieve these goals in the effective and professional way. Management theories help the managers to know to motive the staff to lead them to achieve the assigned goal.

The studies failed to prove any positive correlations between workplace conditions and productivity. The results of the studies demonstrated that innate forces of human behavior may have a greater influence on organizations than do mechanistic incentive systems. The legacy of the Hawthorne studies and other organizational research efforts of that period began to emphasize the importance of individual and group interaction, humanistic management skills, and social relationships in the workplace.

First, I will discuss the exemplary management theories that transpired around the twentieth century. These involve scientific management, which center of attraction was on associating per-sonnel and jobs to increase effectiveness; and administrative management, which center of atten-tion is on recognizing the principles that will impel to the beginning of the nearly adept structure of management and organization. Next, you have behavioral management theories which was estab-lished both prior and subsequently the Second World War, which spotlight was on supervisors should guide and supervise their personnel to optimize their effectiveness. Then you have man-agement science theory, which was current during the Second World War and which has evolved to be very