MANAGEMENT AND THE MANAGER
“Better to proceed than to wait for direction. Better to ask forgiveness than ask permission. Better to be seen as stubborn than incompetent” (Block, 1987 pg. 17). A manger is a person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization. Although many managers are looked at as the same there are many different management technics. One of the earliest forms of management coping was the theory of Scientific and Classical management. Fredrick Taylor was interested in the scientific study and design of work process; Taylor advanced four ideas first was the idea the experiments can determine the physical working conditions under which productivity will be highest. Secondly one …show more content…
Fourth mindset is the managing relationships: the collaborative mindset. Last we have the managing change mindset: the action mindset. (Gosling, Mintzberg, 2009, pg. 56). Human relations would soon challenge the scientific management principles with the results of the Hawthorne studies. This suggested that interpersonal communications, group dynamics, and organization members attitudes and values are more important the work structure and organizational design in determining organizational effectiveness. (Papa, Daniels, & Spiker, 2008, p. 90). Meanwhile human relations were challenging the classical and scientific theories of management; the human resource was challenging the human relations theory. The human resources described by Swanson and Holton HDR is based on humanist values emphasizing human rationality, human perfectibility, and self-awareness. (Papa, Daniels, & Spiker, 2008, p. 92). All organizations experience birth, development, and later death. System theories provided a new analogy for the study of organizational communication- the living organism. Where as scientific and classical scholars regarded the organizations a machinelike objects operated by …show more content…
Sims and Mr. Dykes have very similar ways of managing their organizations. They both are very encouraging to the staff and want to push them to do their absolute best. Each have a specific way to get information to and form their staff members, whether that is through word of mouth or a mass email to everyone individually. Some of the things that differ are the way they reward and discipline their staff. Dr. Sims feeds her staff where as Mr. Dykes gives gift cards as a form of a bonus. Then discipline is handled by Dr. Sims by simply calling each individue person to her office to discuss the issue resulting in individual growth, where as Mr. Dykes calls a staff meeting and discusses what is wrong as a whole resulting in group
“Better to proceed than to wait for direction. Better to ask forgiveness than ask permission. Better to be seen as stubborn than incompetent” (Block, 1987 pg. 17). A manger is a person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization. Although many managers are looked at as the same there are many different management technics. One of the earliest forms of management coping was the theory of Scientific and Classical management. Fredrick Taylor was interested in the scientific study and design of work process; Taylor advanced four ideas first was the idea the experiments can determine the physical working conditions under which productivity will be highest. Secondly one …show more content…
Fourth mindset is the managing relationships: the collaborative mindset. Last we have the managing change mindset: the action mindset. (Gosling, Mintzberg, 2009, pg. 56). Human relations would soon challenge the scientific management principles with the results of the Hawthorne studies. This suggested that interpersonal communications, group dynamics, and organization members attitudes and values are more important the work structure and organizational design in determining organizational effectiveness. (Papa, Daniels, & Spiker, 2008, p. 90). Meanwhile human relations were challenging the classical and scientific theories of management; the human resource was challenging the human relations theory. The human resources described by Swanson and Holton HDR is based on humanist values emphasizing human rationality, human perfectibility, and self-awareness. (Papa, Daniels, & Spiker, 2008, p. 92). All organizations experience birth, development, and later death. System theories provided a new analogy for the study of organizational communication- the living organism. Where as scientific and classical scholars regarded the organizations a machinelike objects operated by …show more content…
Sims and Mr. Dykes have very similar ways of managing their organizations. They both are very encouraging to the staff and want to push them to do their absolute best. Each have a specific way to get information to and form their staff members, whether that is through word of mouth or a mass email to everyone individually. Some of the things that differ are the way they reward and discipline their staff. Dr. Sims feeds her staff where as Mr. Dykes gives gift cards as a form of a bonus. Then discipline is handled by Dr. Sims by simply calling each individue person to her office to discuss the issue resulting in individual growth, where as Mr. Dykes calls a staff meeting and discusses what is wrong as a whole resulting in group