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Unit 2: Development of Management Theories

13. Explain the principal contributions of F.W. Taylor to the development of management Notes
thought.
14. Outline the features of a bureaucratic form of organisation. Point out its merits and demerits.

15. If you were a manager, which of these school of thoughts would impress you the most and
why?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. machines, components of that machine 2. formal

3. scientific management, administrative management
4. F W Taylor 5. division of labour
6. Weber’s ‘Ideal’ Bureaucracy 7. Elton Mayo
8. Systems 9. reciprocal interdependence
10. Status 11. formal

12. modern

2.8 Further Readings

Books Dalton McFarland, Management: Foundations and Practices, Macmillan, New York,
1979.

F.W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management, New York, Harper and Row, 1947.
Henry Fayol, General and Industrial Management, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd.,
1949.

J. Stoner, Management, Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, 1990.
Parag Diwan, Management Principles and Practices, Excel Books.
Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management, New York, Harper, 1954.
W.J. Duncan, Essentials of Management, Illinois, The Dryden Press, 1975.

Online links http://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/fis/courses/lis1230/lis1230sharma/history1.htm
http://www.marcbowles.com/courses/adv_dip/module3/chapter1/
amc3_ch1three.htm
www.managementheaven.com/classical-approach-to-management
http://bizcovering.com/management/the-concepts-of-classical-management-
theories/
http://classnotesmadeeasy.blogspot.com/2009/07/classical-and-neo-classical-
theories-of.html

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