GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Abraham Maslow, Henri Fayol, Corporate Social Responsibility

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Sui Sui

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Lecture 4- chapter 2 & chapter 5: history of management past and present. The industrial revolution (1750-1850: machine power, large scale production, started to have highly specialized workers, innovations, birth of classical management. Figure 2. 1 major branches in the classical approach to management: classical approaches (assumptions : people are rational) However there is lots of protests from the people. Frederick w. taylor (1856-1915: an american mechanical engineer, the father of scientific management , one of the first management consultants, taylorism. February 9, 2016: it made the company a lot of money but people were treated badly. Problems with scientific management: workers are necessarily human, no time to relax, no permission to innovate. Henri fayol (1841-1925: 14 administrative principles, rules of management, key principles of management. An ideal, intentionally rational, and very efficient form of organization. Figure 2. 2 foundations in the behavioural or human resource approaches to management: hawthorne studies (ethan mayo) and theory of human needs (abraham maslow)