Management Approaches Essay

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"Management Approaches" Please respond to the following: Compare and contrast the theories of scientific management with that of the human relations management approach. Determine whether there is one best approach to management, or if managers should adopt a variety of management approaches. Provide your rationale. I find that human relations management is an evolution of the scientific management approach. Although, the scientific management approach began as a way to improve efficiency and take a scientific and systematic approach to work, part of that approach involved doing right by the workers. Ideas such as eliminating nepotism by hiring the right people for the job, training and developing employees, giving workers shorter working hours, and more frequent breaks do more than improve efficiency, they affect morale. The key of this approach is to align management and employees so what was good for employees is equally good for management. I see these as steps towards the human relations management approach; in this approach the focus is on people and psychological and social aspects. In this approach we see the effect people have on their organization, and the affect their surroundings have on their individual work. Although this is going a step further than the steps in the scientific management approach, I believe, the principles I outlined above were stepping stones to pave a way towards the human resources approach to management. I don’t believe there is one best approach to management. To be the most effective manager one should pull from different approaches to find an approach that most fits the management context you are facing. When I am crunched for time, trying to meet deadlines, and trying to meet specific goals the scientific management approach is one I lean on, while trying to find the best way to improve efficiency and get the

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