Approaches to Management-Analysis

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Introduction

With the passage of time, the things change. The management styles have drastically changed from the last century to the present. The statement “Approaches to management, as embodied in the Human Relations and Scientific Management schools of thought, were only relevant to management in the early 20th century, when they first hit the headlines, and have no relevance to management in the early 21st century" is the topic for the essay. The scientific management and human relations have got the changed that were the requirements of the passing and developing time. The essay will analyze the statement and highlight whether it is true or not.

Discussions

Management

Improving individual and organizational effectiveness has been a primary research focus for the management and organization theorists since the early part of this century. Management has always been the important factor in the business. It has its own ways to operate and manage. Management interventions can be viewed as planned changes in the work setting designed to change the behavior of organizational members and lead to desirable organizational outcomes (Porras & Silvers, 1991).

The domain of management interventions is a rich and fruitful area for development of theory that bridges various types of interventions and for the conduct of empirical investigation into the effectiveness of interventions. We begin consideration of the topic of management interventions by first presenting a broad model of the intervention process. We then briefly review conceptual frameworks for analyzing management interventions before addressing specific intervention.

A general model of the management intervention process is presented .The model presents interventions as potentially producing changes in a variety of workplace characteristics (Porras & Robertson, 1992). A description of possible foci of intervention that seem most aligned with each of these categories of workplace characteristics is presented in Management interventions may involve changes to more than one of the four work settings identified in the model in Table 18.1. For example, Taylor's scientific management approach involved making changes to organizational arrangements, technology, and the physical setting (Taylor, 1911). The total quality management (TQM) intervention may involve changes to the organizational setting (e.g., management policy), social factors (e.g., teamwork), technology (e.g., job redesign), and the physical setting (e.g., physical ambience).

Approaches to Management

Based on a 15-country study in Western Europe, management and communication styles are examined through a wide-ranging interview schedule. In the context of national and business cultures, the dimensions of communications beliefs and practices are explored, and their interrelationships with managerial style are examined. The results show many nuances to the usually accepted cultural clusters of northern European, southern European, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, and Germanic countries. These categories have been shown to have numerous exceptions, thus presenting some contradictions and qualifications to simplistic arguments. To understand intercultural differences in Europe requires many approaches. Management styles and communications styles are, inter alia, 2 keys to developing understanding, although their effects are not unidirectional and possess many dimensions and permutations. (Evans, Lank.et.al 1989)

Among the traditional reference points in cultural dimensions ...