Human Relation Theory

INTRODUCTION

This is a critical evaluation of the influence of classical and human relations approaches in management today with reference to appropriate literatures and cases. The advent of management theory in Europe and America in the nineteenth century was brought by industrialization. The early theorist can be divided into two categories one is Practising Manager such as Taylor and Fayol and another is Social Scientists such as Mayo and McGregor. Practicing manager evolved their theories out of their personal management experience and could be applied throughout the whole world to achieve better management which led to organisational efficiency .See Cole, G.A (2004). The resulting theories of the practising manager were mainly based

Classical Theories of Organizations are mainly branched into three categories. Taylor’s Theory of Scientific Management, Fayol’s Administrative Theory and Weber’s Theory of Bureaucracy. These three theory aim in improving and having effective management by having predictable control behavior in an organization through their workers. All three theories considered only in the task and ignored the relational and communication part of an organization

2.2 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMNT THEORY

Developed by FW Taylor. Management was based on attaining effective output out of workers. He pointed out that a role or work done by skilled workers should be identified, analysed and studied to reduce and minimize all unnecessary attributes leading to ineffective output. Taylor theories made workers to be under full management by their managers since they had complete autonomy on planning and control over the workspace activities, but Taylor argued that management should not be based on arbitrary basis but rather the scientific

It was criticized for treating human being as machines with motivational satisfaction being cause of monetary rewards which could not explain why some charitable organisations people are willing to volunteer for free for the betterment of the society such organization includes the religious institution. This proved that that Taylor 's thinking of money being the only factor was wrong. There was no room for creativity from the workers due to the predefined set of rules to be followed there is no self-actualization critic form Argyris. Schermerhorn, JR. (2011). Due to monotony of worker’s cruel managers could mistreat their employees and these has led to several revolts against scientific management which resulted into banning of some practises such as use of stop watches by managers to track time of work accomplished by their employees ukessays.com (2015) have a common