Description:identify major developments in the history of managerial thought including classical and contemporary approaches.Academic essay should discuss the following points:
1. a) What is management / managing organisations
•Various definitions of management
•The detailed roles and tasks of management
•The internal & external environments of managing
b) The practice of management – what is management really about?
•The basic tasks and responsibilities
•The need to manage / understand the INTERNAL and EXTERNAL environments of an organisation
c) The development of management theory (we focus on 4 models)
•Management theory
•Historical development of approaches
ii) How these models relate to each other:
The Competing Values Framework (CVF)
•The four models: Rational Goal model, Internal Process model, Human Relations model, and Open Systems model
•Today: Scientific Management and the Rational Goal model
d) Internal Process model: the work of Weber & Fayol
•Human Relations model: the Hawthorne experiment
e) Open Systems models
• The contingency approach
• Summary: the management models & CVF approach
f) POLC – SWOT – PESTEL * important *
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