Managment and Org Behaviour Course Profileat Mucg

METHODIST UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF GHANA

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

LEVEL 500

The Search for Principles of Management

Henri Fayol’s Principles of Management

• He began his working life at the age of nineteenth in France

• He spent his entire working life with the same company

• He rose to the position of the managing director at the age of 47 and retire after his seventy-seventh birthday

• His entrepreneurial successes won him considerable fame and popularity

• He defined management in terms of key activities of any industrial undertaking

1. technical activities- production

2. commercial activities- buying and selling

3. financial activities- securing capital

4. security activities- safeguarding property

5. accounting activities- providing financial information

6. managerial activities- planning and organizing

• he noted that to manage is to;

1. forecast and plan

2. organize

3. command

4. coordinate

5. control

• His general principles were adopted by the followers of the classical school Urwick, and Breach but some modern management theorists did not see any substance in it.

• His reference to division of labor, scalar chain, unity of command and centralization were found to be descriptive

• Issues such as individual versus general interests, remuneration and equity were considered to be different from paternalism.

• Indeed Fayol was very much concerned with the structural nature of organization

Taylor and Scientific Management

• Fredrick Winslow Taylor was one of the early practical manager-theorists

• He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1856

• He spent part of his time in looking into how organizational efficiency can be obtained

• Most of the solutions were based on his own practical experience

• He started his career as...