UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO MANAGEMENT THEORY.

2. UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO MANAGEMENT THEORY.

a) Classical-Scientific:
How best to manage & organize work more efficiently to improve productivity.

Taylor’s 4 principles of scientific management:
1- Examine each part of task.
2- Select suitable workers & train them.
3- Cooperate with workers to guarantee they use scientific
methods.
4- Divide work & responsibility.

Functions of management:

1. PLANNING: - setting goals, working out best way to achieve them.
a) Strategic Planning: long-term planning.
b) Tactical Planning: Short-term planning. (1 or 2 years)
c) Operational Planning: Day-to-day planning.

2. ORGANISING: - next stage of management.
Determines:
• what is to be done
• who does it
• how
Involves translating plans into reality to achieve goals.

3. CONTROLLING: - measuring actual performance in a busin...