Which Theory?

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Many of the approaches to management and/or managerial theories are based on historical approaches to management and/or historical managerial theories. Analyze the approach to management an organization takes with which you are familiar.

In the analysis identify how this approach is different from and similar to at least one historical approach. Assess how effective (or ineffective) the approach is.

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Running head: SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT APPROACH

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Scientific Management Approach
Various approaches are used in organizational management that were developed by
different scholars at a different time and aimed at improving the operation of an organization.
Among this approaches, one of the approaches that are used in various organizations is the
scientific management approach. The approach of scientific management was developed around
late 19th century by Fredrick Taylor. It is an approach that aims at improving the working
efficiency in an organization to achieve specialization, simplification, standardization as well as
the entire efficiency in the specific organization. Also, the approach aims at increasing the
organization's productivity by creating mutual trust among the management as well as its
workers. Taylor focused on improving the trust level in line with the productivity level
improvement going to the workers (Waring, 2016). With this, he focused on the elimination of
anxiety as well as physical stress via workers training and getting rid of a concept that is
traditional of "boss."
The approach has for guiding principles where the first principle relates to the
development of a science that is true to everyone’s work. The second principle is that the
worker's selection in an organization should be scientific. This depicts that workers of a certain
organization should be selected following a [particular analysis. The selected worker should then
be taken through training as well as development. Management and Labor Corporation is the
third principle of this approach. It stipulates that instead of conflict management organization
management should get into collaboration with the organizational members. The fourth principle
is the aspect of workers training that ought to be scientific. The principle depicts that a worker
should get training from experts basing on scientific methods.

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In most of today's organizations, these principles of the scientific approach are evident.
For example, the first principle outlines about traditional methods whereby in today they have
been replaced by scientific principles as well as laws. It is evident in organizations that are
factory based there is the aspect of automation where most of the work that was initially being
performed by human labor has been optimized by the use of scientific methods as well as
approaches. The aim of au...