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This 10 page paper describes and explains these two perspectives in relation to management. Who and how each school of thought was initiated is also discussed. How each relates to management in today's corporations is discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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November, 2001 properly! Management theories have a long history of evolvement. Each era supported a slightly different perspective or
overlapping perspectives in terms of organizational development. The Industrial Revolution brought with it new forms of work and new ways of operating. Managing plants and factories as well as
other large enterprises required a different way to manage both the company and the employees. In the late 1800s, Frederic Taylor developed a system to analyze human behavior in the
workplace (Wertheim, 2001). He stated that "In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first" (BOLA, 2001). In other words, Taylors focus was
the machine, the system. He placed workers in the same category-each was a part of the system and they were interchangeable. Taylor said that he was using a scientific method
to solve practical management problems. A little background of the time period in which Taylor worked is helpful to understand how advanced Taylors thinking was because he himself worked
in a factory. The factories of the late 1800s and early 1900s were completely different than those of the latter 1900s. Work was done according to a craft system.
Each job was a trade and their secrets and rules were passed down only to those who would take over, sort of like from master to apprentice. Factory owners and
bosses did not have a clue as to how the work should be scheduled nor did they have any idea about how to optimize the output of machines. The owners
provided a place to work and the tools but after that it was up to the foremen to get the work done faster. If these craftsmen workers told them there
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