Every Good Story Requires Its Villains, Heroes and...

BOLTON UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF WELLBEING AND SOCIAL SCIENCE BUSINESS SCHOOL Module Name and number: Managing Organisational Behaviour. (BAM2002) Tutor: Tony CARDEN Assignment Number: 1 of 2 (50%) Assignment Length: 2500 words Submission Deadline: Monday 19th March 2012 (Week 7) Assignment Title: Every good story requires its villains, heroes and heroines. The study of management is no different and a perusal of Organisational Textbooks, more often than not, depicts F. W. Taylor’s Scientific Management theory as the villain of the story and the Human Relations Movement as the hero or heroine. The Human Relations Movement is portrayed as the proverbial knight in shining white armour whose arrival, via†¦show more content†¦From this time, managerial theory became unavoidable and critical in the way managers manage complex organizations. More broadly, according to Koontz and Weihrich (1990:4), â€Å"management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims.† Management has been defined in many different ways, but there is a common denominator to all those definitions, some elements are used and considered in each definition. Chelladurai, P. (2005) points out some elements like goals/objectives to be achieved with limited resources and with and through people. He adds that the objective of every managerial work and mostly the role of the manager inside a company are to inspire, motivate, and encourage the workers to perform at their workplace in an effective and cost-effective manner. This shows how managers of contemporary organizations have to cope with a strategic and starring role in their respective organizations if they are to achieve set goals. Because the management process has several required organisational steps which cannot be ignored and have to be implemented using knowledge areas such as planning, organising, leading and evaluating. Do Human relations movement and Taylorism have joint elements? Through the twentieth century, management theory developed in different phases. Grieves, J. (2000) stresses that management researchers invested