Fredrick Winslow Taylor And Weber's Theory And Classical Organizational Theory

Organizational Theory was introduced at a time in history when commerce was expanding and the concept greatly shaped the industrial revolution. Classical Organizational Theory was the major administrative structure for both public and private organizations well into the 1930’s and can still be found highly influential today. There were several thought leaders to contribute to the development of this theory and with Aristotle being considered one of the early founders of this thought. This essay will also recognize the contributions of Fredrick Winslow Taylor and Max Weber as both of these thought leaders were considered and segmented as part of the principle of specialization and contributed most to Classical Organizational Theory in my opinion. Without regard to the addition of the Administrative theory by Mooney and Riley, these ideologies of Scientific Management and Administrative Management created Classical Organizational theory.
Classical Organizational Theory contends that there is “one best way” to perform a task and espouses this concept through with two perspectives:
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This closed-system has weakness, as, rational theory is perhaps too narrowly focused on production and reduces the human component to simply fleshy machines; it promotes capital intensive economies, and classical theory is largely derived intellectually rather than empirically, taking on critics as this theory may lead to a work environment in which employees have minimal power over their jobs and working conditions and working conditions produce to psychological failure as a result of the belief that they are lower class employees performing menial