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[Parts of an Elephant ]. (n.d.). Retrieved December 10, 2017, from http://slideplayer.com/slide/5893043/

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[Parts of an Elephant ]. (n.d.). Retrieved December 10, 2017, from http://slideplayer.com/slide/5893043/

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-Developed by Frederick Taylor (1917)
-Production is key and most important aspect. Worker's happiness was low on the chain of concern.

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1. Find the "best way" to perform each task.
2. Carefully match each worker to each task.
3. Closely supervise workers and use reward and punishment as motivators.
4. The task of management is planning and control.
(Walonick, 1993)

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In classical and neoclassical theory, conflict is viewed as something that must be avoided. Contingency theory sought out to change that ideal theorizing that conflict is inevitable, but it is able to be managed.

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Contingency theory also focused on how management adapts to its environment. "Effectiveness was a function of management's ability to adapt to environmental changes" (Walonick, 1993).

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In 1928, Ludwig von Bertalanffy orignaly proposed this theory stating that everything in an organization is related and changing one thing can throw the whole organization off balance.
Not until more recent times has this theory been applied.

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An example of systems theory is that of an elephant. If one part of an elephant is not in the right place, it is no longer an elephant.
We need to think of an organization as the elephant, if one piece of the organizations equilibrium is off, the organization is no longer the organization because each piece is connected to the other.