Various management theories are being widely practiced and applied by the companies all over the world to maximise the efficiency of production in order to achieve higher profits. The Scientific Management Theory and the Human Relations Theory will be evaluated in different aspects about how they can help with the development of companies’ management methods in the modern context.
Scientific theory was introduced by an American industrial engineer Frederick W. Taylor. The aim of this theory is to optimize the process of the production. By using the scientific method, the work can be divided into different components and these components can be allocated by managers and finished by workers with relatively higher efficiency. Nowadays, firms …show more content…
There are limitations such as it cannot be applied directly to a company as a whole. Furthermore, his scientific theory simply concluded that workers only work for the economic factor but does not take into account the influences by the social factor or psychological factor in management. Henry Gantt is also an important part of scientific management. The Gantt Chart was devised by him in the early 20th century. It can clearly illustrate the project schedule. In the modern context, the Gantt Chart also shows the dependency relationship between activities. The Gantt Chart are being wildly used in nowadays organization and management schemes and it does save a lot of time that could be wasted and improve the efficiency of …show more content…
This theory was introduced by professor Elton Mayo. Mayo did an experiment which is known as the Hawthorn Studies (Mayo, 1923) to prove the importance of workers for production, rather than machines. As a result, Mayo proved that the factor that has largest influence on productivity are
Scientific theory was introduced by an American industrial engineer Frederick W. Taylor. The aim of this theory is to optimize the process of the production. By using the scientific method, the work can be divided into different components and these components can be allocated by managers and finished by workers with relatively higher efficiency. Nowadays, firms …show more content…
There are limitations such as it cannot be applied directly to a company as a whole. Furthermore, his scientific theory simply concluded that workers only work for the economic factor but does not take into account the influences by the social factor or psychological factor in management. Henry Gantt is also an important part of scientific management. The Gantt Chart was devised by him in the early 20th century. It can clearly illustrate the project schedule. In the modern context, the Gantt Chart also shows the dependency relationship between activities. The Gantt Chart are being wildly used in nowadays organization and management schemes and it does save a lot of time that could be wasted and improve the efficiency of …show more content…
This theory was introduced by professor Elton Mayo. Mayo did an experiment which is known as the Hawthorn Studies (Mayo, 1923) to prove the importance of workers for production, rather than machines. As a result, Mayo proved that the factor that has largest influence on productivity are