Mindset of a Manager

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Running head: Final Project: Management Theories and Practices

Final Project

GM501 Management Theories and Practices: Past, Current and Future

Final Project

Management and the action mindset

Management is one of the most important roles that a person can have in business organizations. From the time that people began forming social organizations to accomplish goals and objectives that cannot be met as individuals, managing has been, and continues to be, an essential process to ensure the organization of individual efforts. As society continues to rely on group effort, the task of managers has become increasingly complex, not to mention important. Therefore, managerial theory has become crucial in the way people manage multifaceted organizations. Organizations cannot succeed with a manager – managers are there to ensure that the organization stays productive. A manager must deal with people, help with performance, and be aware of financial issues, as well as customer service because a business exists to make money through their customers. In the early 1900’s the concept of Scientific Management was born. Known as “The Father of Scientific Management,” Frederick Taylor believed that managers could improve the productivity of factory workers if they understood workers’ tasks and he then planned each task for each worker. With traditional management theory, managers are supposed to plan, organize, coordinate, and control. In Taylor’s opinion, businesses were machines; his managerial challenge was to devise ways to make these machines more and more efficient. Taylor’s logic of scientific management led to innovations such as the assembly line, time and motion study, business process design, and even Six Sigma! His principles of scientific management include: science, not rule-of-thumb, scientific selection of the worker, management and labor...