history of applied management theory Consider this module’s topics and readings

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history of applied management theory

Consider this module’s topics and readings you found as well as the Management History Timeline. Identify improvements made to the original methods used in the illumination experiments while conducting the relay-assembly test room experiments. In your view, how are these differences significant to management thought?

Here are some topics for you to examine / consider for this week's discussion:

Organizations and People

Organizational Structure and Design

James Mooney

Explanation / Answer

Hawthorne experiments has certain limitation in his relay-assembly test room experiments

The researchers concluded that socio-psychological factors for eg, such as feeling of being important, recognition, attention, participation, cohesive work-group, interaction with coleagues and non-directive supervision held the key for higher productivity.

This experiment lags many other environmental factors and knowledge factor for an employee and his productivity relationship.

Organizations and People

Organisation and people are interconnected and has to move hand in hand to achieve the desired goal and objectives.

Collaboration and inter relationship is necessary for the success of organisation. People or employee friendly organisation has high success rate. People can be stakeholders, customers, employees etc. Thus organisation must achieve a best practise to align people of different category

Organizational Structure and Design

Structure of organisation has significant role in organisational performance. It can be hierarchical wise ( centralised), flat or decentralised. Centralised give more control to top management over the employees and each layer has given certain authorities and power to delegate upon others. While decentralised have more freedom and it encourages collective participation of all employees for decision making.

James Money is a famous ethnographer and dis studies about ethnic culture and its diversity majorly in American regions.

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