This document provides an overview of the concept of management including its definition, evolution, and key aspects. It discusses that management involves achieving goals through others efficiently and effectively. The document outlines the tasks of management including planning, organizing, and controlling. It explores different approaches to management over time like scientific management and behavioral theories. Finally, it briefly touches on classification of managerial decisions and levels of management.
Evolution of Management Concepts, Tasks, Decisions & Levels
1. CONCEPT OF MANAGEMENT
TASKS OF
MANAGEMENT,CLASSIFICATION
OF MANAGERIAL DECISION AND
EVOLUTION OF MANAGEMENT
SUBMITTED BY
J.ROBINSON RAJA
VETY & ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTENSION
IVRI,BAREILLY
2. MANAGEMENT
Derived from the Italian maneggiare (to handle, especially tools or a horse),
Two Latin words manus (hand) and agere (to act).
The French word for housekeeping, ménagerie, derived from ménager ("to
keep house"; compare ménage for "household") also encompasses taking care
of domestic animals
3. DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT
It is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which
individuals working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims
Modern definition” process of getting things effectively and efficiently
through and with other people
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Efficiency means getting most output from least input
Effectiveness is doing the right things
4. CONCEPT
F.W. Taylor - “Art of knowing what you want to do and then seeing that it is
done the best and cheapest way”.
Henry Fayol – “To Manage is to forecast, to plan, to organise, to command, to
co-ordinate and to control”
Peter F.Drucker –”Management is work and as such it has its own skills, its
own tools and its own techniques”.
5. CHARACTERISTICS OF MANAGEMENT
Is a Process /a function.
Is a Social Process.
Involves Group Effort.
Aims at achieving predetermined objectives.
Required at all levels of management
Is a Profession
Is an art and science.
11. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Egyptian pyramids, great wall of china, the qutub minar, taj mahal
1400 – venice - a major economic, trade center (floating warship assembly
lines).
Developed an early form of business enterprise common to today
First in 1776, ADAM SMITH- WEALTH OF NATIONS about job specialization .
Second is Industrial revolution where mechanization is promoted
How is it possible through managers
Formal theroies started in 1900 s
12. CLASSICAL APPROACH
Early works on management
Emphasized rationality, making workers as efficient.
Focus on increasing industrial output by providing incentives
13. TAYLOR’S SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
THEORY
Finding one best way for doing the job by avoiding wastage of men and
material
Father of SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.
Intro differential wage rate system for productive workers
Principles
Rule of thumb replaced with science
Harmony but no discord in group actions
Cooperation, not individualism.
Maximum output not restricted
Workers to full capacity.
14. LIMITATIONS
Unrealistic assumptions
Mechanistic approach
Exploitation of labour
Impractical
Narrow view
Followers – gilbert, grant, emerson
MODERN APPLICATION:
Time motion studies to increase productivity
Hire best qualified employees
15. GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE THEORY
H.FAYOL:
Managing the organisation as a whole rather than lower levels of org.
Five Functions of management.
14 principles of management
Abilities of managers
16. Classified activities in business organisation
Technical
Commercial
Financial
Security
Accounting
managerial
20. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
Use of quantative techniques to improve decision making
Also known as management science.
Evovled from mathematical, statistical problems developed during world
war-II
Eg. TQM-DELL
MODERN APPLICATION:
Long queues in railway station.
21. BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH
Study that researches the action of people at work is called as organisational
behaviour.
Concepts from sociology, psychology, anthropology are applied to study human
behaviour
22.
23. THE HAWTHORNE STUDIES
Examining the effects of various lighting levels on workers productivity
No effect of light except moonlit light
Similarly incentive pay system on group productivity than group pressure,
acceptance, security.
MODERN APPLICATION:
Theories of motivation, leadership, group behaviour etc
24.
25. CONTEMPORARY APPROACH
SYSTEMS THEORY
Closed –not influenced by no interaction with environment (system inputs,
outputs are internal)
Coordination of entire organisation is needed for proper functioning
26.
27. CONTIGENCY APPROACH
Also known as situational approach
Organisations are different and face different situations and need different
ways of managing
POPULAR CONTIGENCY VARIABLES:
Organisation size
Routiness of task technology
environmental uncertainity
Individual differences
28. CLASSIFICATION OF MANAGERIAL
DECISIONS
Programmed and non programmed decisions
Major and minor decisions
Routine and strategic
Organisational and personal
Individual and group
Policy and operating
31. MODELS OF DECISION MAKING
Rational model:
Popular and based on pros and cons
Non-rational models:
Satisficing model -alternatives
Incremental model- small response possible
Garbage- can model- behave in a virtually random pattern.