Relevance of Classical Management Theories in Modern Business Environment

5.3 To comply with legislation to minimise individual self or others, to safeguard myself and others health and safety and to apply agreed working practiceds to use equipment.

policies and procedures. Staff to have the relevant training to be able to fill their role

* To help the employees in identifying the knowledge and skills required for performing the job efficiently as this would drive their focus towards performing the right task in the right way, which in turn helps work towards the business objectives as their

‘provide clear information, supervision and training for employees and ensure that suitably competent people are

* Be familiar with and guided by all relevant standards which further define how legislation is applied.

Scientific management or "Taylorism" is an approach to job design, developed by Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) during the Second World War. With the industrial revolution came a fast growing pool of people, seeking jobs, that required a new approach of management. Scientific management was the first management theory, applied internationally. It believes in the rational use of resources for utmost output, hence motivating workers to earn more money. Taylor believed that the incompetence of managers was the major obstacle on the way of productivity increase of human labour. Consequently, this idea led to the need of change of management principles. On the base of research, involving analysing controlled experiments under various working

* Provide operational information to ensure that everyone can do their job as well as possible and to assist in the general running of the organisation

* have employees who value individuals and their diversity, respect others and openly share information, knowledge and views to help colleagues succeed.

It requires the gathering of "managerial focuses for the acquisition of genuine organizations" that would "recognize and complete regulations related to legitimate organizations past the traditional regulation of the legal calling."

1. Provide employees with high quality of life by making them comfortable at work and by giving them a variety of benefits

The classical or traditional approach to management was generally concerned with the structure and the activities of formal organization. The utmost importance in the achievement of an effective organization were seen to be the issues such as the establishment of a hierarchy of authority, the division of work, and the span of control.

• Measure and manage the “soft” skills as well as the hard skills. In addition to rewarding output, profit, and sales etc., provide recognition and reward for ‘how’ the work gets done, the people skills that contribute to a better climate and greater satisfaction.

The classical management has two basic drives namely scientific and general administrative management. Scientific management focuses on how to increase productivity whiles the administrative management theory looks at organizations in general and concentrate on how to make them effective and efficient.

Competence, not “who you know,” should be the basis for all decisions made in hiring, job assignments, and promotions in order to foster ability and merit as the primary characteristics of a bureaucratic organization.

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