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My Organizational Theory Infographic by https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3 By: Taina Dorvil en-us 2017-12-10 22:40:48 UTC 2017-12-10 23:26:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png Classical Organization Theory Frederick Taylor in 1917 developed scientific management theory also called “Taylorism" at the beginning of this century. The theory has four basic principles.1) find the one "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.The theory’s methods involve getting the finest equipment and people, and then carefully examining each component of the production process. By examining each task individually, it was possible to find the right mixtures of factors that produced large rises in production. Though the theory proved successful in simple industrialized companies, it has not proved successful in modern companies. The downfalls of the classical theory included decline in production and quality and dissatisfaction with work, loss of pride with the production first people second approach. Classical management theory had many flaws ad it was too rigid and focused on motivation to work with economic reward. Max Weber in 1947 expanded on the theory and focused on establishing clear lines of authority and control. Weber highlighted the need for a hierarchical structure of power and the importance of separate parts of labor and specialization. dorvilt7 https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214864856 2017-12-10 22:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214864856 Contingency Theory Unlike Classical theorist’s view that conflict is something to be dodged because it inhibited with symmetry. Contingency theorists view conflict as unavoidable, however controllable. In 1962 Chandler studied four large United States corporations and projected that an organization would naturally evolve to meet the needs of its strategy, that form follows function, Chandler's proposed ideas that organizations would act in a rational, sequential, and linear manner to acclimate to variations in the environment. Lawrence and Lorsch in 1969 also studied how organizations accustomed to fit their environment. In highly instable industries they reported the importance of giving managers at all levels the authority to make decisions over their province. Managers would be free to make decisions dependent on the current situation. dorvilt7 https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214866186 2017-12-10 23:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214866186 Systems Theory Systems theory was proposed by Hungarian biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy in 1928. The foundation of systems theory is that all the components of an organization are interconnected, and that changing one variable might impact many others. Senge in 1990 describes systems thinking as “understanding how our actions shape our reality”. The theory follows the philosophy “If I believe that my current state was created by somebody else, or by forces outside my control, why should I hold a vision? “Systems thinking helps us see how our own actions have shaped our current reality, thereby giving us confidence that we can create a different reality in the future. Small changes in one variable can cause huge changes in another, and large changes in a variable might have only a insignificant effect on another. The concept of nonlinearity adds massive difficulty to our understanding of organizations. one of the most outstanding argument against systems theory is that the complexity introduced by nonlinearity makes it difficult or impossible to fully understand the relationships between variables. dorvilt7 https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214867600 2017-12-10 23:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214867600 http://www.statpac.org/walonick/organizational-theory.htm dorvilt7 https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214867931 2017-12-10 23:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dorvilt7/4oa2khwafsm3/wish/214867931