Irhr Report

Part one Introduction&Review This article is trying to find out how the classical management effects the managerial work.According to the journal,the original classical management first introduced by Fayol(1949)and developed by Urwick(1952).this kind of functions included planning,organizing,commanding,coordinating and controlling.After Fayol first introduced the management functions,there are many other writers tried to developed such as Mintzberg,Williams and Hemphill and so on.Some famous writers Mahoney,Jerdee and Carroll(1963,1965) were expanded Fayol’s five functions to eight.They called this as”PRINCESS”factors.Fayol(1949) Urwick(1952) said that managers not only should carry out the classical functions but also carry out that skills was related to managerial success.For example,Stagner found that how many times did manager spent in organizational planning was related to the firm’s profitability,that’s said that managers should carry out the functions in classical managerial and translated to their own skills.Also.there are some problems that Mintzberg’ studies had,because according to Carroll and Taylor(1968)studies.The Mintzberg’s focus was not on the reasons for the observable.Although many managers often contacts with a lot of people during a day,they also do planning controlling and investigating.Kotter(1982a) research studied 15 successful general managers in industries.He found that managers spend a lot of times with their unit or organization.This kind of situation can provide the information that mangers and others needed.In this research,he also believe that the quality of manager’s networks influenced the manager’s performance in order to complete their agenda.In addiction,according to this Journal,the classical functions still very useful to the manager’s job,particularly for the management education.And it will continous be shown at current management books,because there are more than 500000 students taking the basic