Compare and Contrast Fayol, Taylor, and Weber’s Theories...

This assignment will compare and contrast the theoretical perspectives of management theorists Henri Fayol, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Max Weber. Each of the three theorists had a unique view on public administration and policy. This assignment will briefly show the back ground and basic concept of each theory. Then the assignment will delve into each of the theories to determine how each theory stacks up against one another when they are laid side by side. The development of Taylors theory of scientific management began with his first encounter with workers as an executive trainee. That encounter reveals that his priorities were not with the worker, but instead with management. Taylor himself associated the encounter with the†¦show more content†¦463-464). Basically, these functions and principles show that Fayol wanted to streamline the organization and operation of the management arm of the business in terms of its own decision-making processes and in its relationship with the workers in the firm. For example, as Moorehead and Griffin explain, the principle of the unity of command was designed to make managements issuing of orders more efficient: Employees should receive directions from only one person, rather than receiving partial or even contradictory directions from more than one manager, and unity of direction means that tasks with the same objective should have a common supervisor (Moorehead and Griffin, 1998, p. 463). These individual parts of Fayols organizing plan were not meant to be separate but rather integrated parts of a whole new system: Combining these two principles [i.e. unities of command and direction] with division of labor, authority, and responsibility results in a system of tasks and reporting and authority relationships that is the very essence of organizing. Fayols principles thus provide the framework for the organization chart and the coordination of work (Moorehead and Griffin, 1998, p. 463). Fayol focused on theShow MoreRelatedCompare and Contrast of the Classical School of Management and the Human Relations School of Management1545 Words   |  7 PagesCompare and contrast of the classical school of management and the human relations school of management The classical or traditional approach to management was generally concerned with the structure and the activities of formal organization. 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