Classical And Classical Approach Management

Classical Approach Management

Classical approach of management professes the body of management thought based on the belief that employees have only economical and physical needs and that the social needs and need for job satisfaction either does not exist or are unimportant. Accordingly it advocates high specialisation of labour, centralised decision making and profit maximisation.

This is one of the oldest form of approach as it began around the end of ninth century, this approached is mainly used in industries and reflecting on the time that it came to alive. Classical approach pictures organisations as machines and its employees as parts of the machine that their main job was just to show up and do their job.

Classical approach tells us three things;

• “Organisations are rational entities”

• “The design of organisation is a science ”

• “People are economic beings”

When it comes to human nature in classical approach, it believed that their emotions are irrelevant when they are at work and they are only working for money as the employees are only seen as nothing but economic beings as their motivation for working is not for advancement in workplace but just for money as they will try to achieve highest reward for a little job performance and they will use whatever power or skills they have to accomplish this goal. The employees cannot be trusted because they are lazy when it comes to working and they would do anything to avoid working as long as possible. Therefore, the design of works must be structured in ways to lessen an employee’s skill and knowledge and to exploit the management control.

The role of managers using classical approach management is to dictate what the employees have to do because they believe they know wh...

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... or the high way. It was discovered in classical approach that Organisations are rational entities as they believed that people only work solely for financial reward and that human fallibility to be eliminated. The use of hierarchical and vertical division of labour as weber worked his way up from the bottom of bureaucracy.

I believe each theory will benefit organisations to some point because they are both strong and weak at the same time so combining both approaches to make it a better approach is appropriate, but since we are talking about needs and values of the workers to considered more important that the organisation’s then I support that human relations approach management is superior than classical approach management. Organisations have to take the element of the human into account otherwise organisation cannot move smoothly to reach their specific goals.