Contemporary Approaches to Management

Contemporary Approaches and Environments of a Business

By: Deanna Crawford

April 2, 2015

MT 140-10: Intro to Management

Instructor Young

Kaplan University

The contemporary approaches to management include: sociotechnical theory, quantitative management, organizational behavior, and systems theory. In regard to environments, an association has an internal environment, a competitive environment, and a macroenvironment. I have been granted the opportunity to explain how these approaches are different from one another, define an “open system”, describe internal, competitive, and macro-environments of and organization, and express how the contemporary approaches are relevant in the three environments. I would like to begin be explaining how sociotechnical theory, quantitative management, organizational behavior, and systems theory are different from one another.

Sociotechnical systems theory is a modern approach to administration that says that an appropriate mixture of employees (the social system) and their understanding, preparation and tools (the technical system) leads to administrative efficiency in pleasing customers. Prominence: Social + Technical. Quantitative management is another modern methodology to management that arranges mathematical or statistical analysis as grounds for decisions. Prominence: Quantitative analysis. The organizational behavior modern approach primarily contemplates the actions and interactions of employees. Prominence: Individual and group behaviors. Systems theory demonstrations that the organization’s performance relies on how operative it is in supplying goods or services utilizing inputs from the external environment. Prominence: Changing inputs into outputs. In the systems theory modern method to administration, an open system is a set of mechanisms and processes, i.e. the institution, subject to the impact of the external environment. The organization is an open system for the reason that its mechanisms and processes...