GMS 200 Chapter 2: Chapter 2.docx

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

Document Summary

Classical school of thought assumption that people are rational, scientific management. Taking instructions from superiors: bureaucratic organization. The science of reducing a task to its basic physical motions. Eliminating wasted motions improves performance: administrative principles (henry fayol, rules of management: Forecast to complete a plan of action for the future. Organization to provide and mobilize resources to implement the plan. Command to lead, select, and evaluate workers to get the best work toward the plan. Coordination to fit diverse efforts together and to ensure information is shared and problems are solved. Control to make sure things happen according to plan and to take necessary corrective action: key principles of management: Unity of direction leader gives a single plan that is followed. Unity of command each employee should have only one manager. Authority employees need to understand that managers have the right to give orders. Order, equity, initiative, centralization: administrative principles (mary parker follett, groups and human cooperation, forward-looking management insights.