Case Assignment OT B
Organizational Theory & Behavior
Organizational behavior theory has evolved many times throughout its creation. Today, we have a combination scientific management, bureaucratic theory, and administrative theory. We should start our comparison with none other than Frederick Taylor. Taylor developed scientific management theory in the early 1900s. His theory had four basic principles: 1) find the one best way to perform each task, 2) carefully match each worker to each task, 3) closely supervise workers, and use reward and punishment as motivators, and 4) the task of management is planning and control (Blake & Moseley, 2010). His basic ideas involved getting the best equipment and people, and then carefully scrutinizing each component of the production process. By doing this he was able to find exactly what worked and what did not, essentially, finding the right combination to bring an organization great prosperity and production. Taylor’s theory was a great success with simple industrialized companies but did fair the same with modern ones. The philosophy of "production first, people second" has left a legacy of declining production and quality, dissatisfaction with work, loss of pride in workmanship, and a near complete loss of organizational pride (Walonick, 1993). It was not until Max Weber expanded Taylor’s theories that we saw a reduction non diversity and ambiguity in organizations. The focus was on establishing clear lines of authority and control. Weber 's bureaucratic theory emphasized the need for a hierarchical structure of power. It recognized the importance of division of labor and specialization (Blake & Moseley, 2010). A formal set of rules was bound into the hierarchy structure to insure stability and uniformity. Weber also put forth the notion that organizational behavior is a network of human interactions, where all behavior could be accounted for. Weber 's principles of bureaucracy outlined the best structured of an
Organizational behavior theory has evolved many times throughout its creation. Today, we have a combination scientific management, bureaucratic theory, and administrative theory. We should start our comparison with none other than Frederick Taylor. Taylor developed scientific management theory in the early 1900s. His theory had four basic principles: 1) find the one best way to perform each task, 2) carefully match each worker to each task, 3) closely supervise workers, and use reward and punishment as motivators, and 4) the task of management is planning and control (Blake & Moseley, 2010). His basic ideas involved getting the best equipment and people, and then carefully scrutinizing each component of the production process. By doing this he was able to find exactly what worked and what did not, essentially, finding the right combination to bring an organization great prosperity and production. Taylor’s theory was a great success with simple industrialized companies but did fair the same with modern ones. The philosophy of "production first, people second" has left a legacy of declining production and quality, dissatisfaction with work, loss of pride in workmanship, and a near complete loss of organizational pride (Walonick, 1993). It was not until Max Weber expanded Taylor’s theories that we saw a reduction non diversity and ambiguity in organizations. The focus was on establishing clear lines of authority and control. Weber 's bureaucratic theory emphasized the need for a hierarchical structure of power. It recognized the importance of division of labor and specialization (Blake & Moseley, 2010). A formal set of rules was bound into the hierarchy structure to insure stability and uniformity. Weber also put forth the notion that organizational behavior is a network of human interactions, where all behavior could be accounted for. Weber 's principles of bureaucracy outlined the best structured of an
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