INTRODUCTION
A number of different major schools of management thoughts have been emerged since 100 years ago. Various views of management have been arisen and affected the managerial skills both in the past and the present.
The whole world had been changed dramatically during the last 100 years. As Clarke and Clegg point out that the increasing rate of change and increasing complexity in the business world is making it harder and harder for managers to find simple statements of management truth. This assignment is going to discuss the changes in the last 50 years which have been affected the three basic skills, Technical skill, Human skill and Conceptual skill, cited by Robert L. Katz in 1950s. And try to compare Katz's work with Brown et al's suggestion for the management in their work "Business Minds" (2002).
MANAGEMENT INFLUENCES
Prior to further discussion on either Katz's or Brown's theory; we have to understand the nature, function and styles of management in organisations.
Organisations are comprised with people who work there, so people play an important role in organisations. However, people are individuals with different thoughts and abilities, so a clear goal is equally important to the organisation and its employees. That is the reason why management shill is required for achieving the goals of the organisations.
Different schools of thoughts have different point of views on the nature and function of management. As Brown et al cited that the manager is the leader and facilitator of an organisation. Management is getting things done in organisations through other people (Inkson & Kolb, 1995). Managers have the greater responsibilities to decide the goals and objectives for the organisations ...
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Murray and Dicroce (2003) suggest that management is a process that uses resources to achieve specific goals effectively; basic management functions including planning, organising, coordinating, directing and controlling. The term of manager can be appointed to the person to plan, organise, coordinate, supervise, negotiate, evaluate and use resources available in the best way possible to achieve the best service. Alternativ...
There are different management concepts. They are scientific management theory, general administrative management theory and behavioural management theory.
In this essay, I am going to compare and contrast three management theories. Charles handy was a professor at London Business School and wrote a lot of books about different managerial theories. One of his booklets was the Gurus of Management. In this booklet he discussed different views of management with different businessmen and experts in management. Handy described these people as Guru which means teacher. The three teachers I chose were Sumantra Ghoshal, Kenichi Ohmae and Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
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