I take it when you say management theories you mean Classical-Scientific, Behavioural, Political, and Contingency theories.
Basically you look at the three ways in which management operate in each theory, and you should know the pro's and con's of each one.
Classical-Scientific Theory.
The old, more traditional style of management theory and was Pioneered by Max Weber and Henri Fayol (Not important IMHO).
The most important thing with this the HIERARCHICAL ORGANSATIONAL STRUCUTRE.
That is, its a management structure of a short span of control (meaning managers only look after a few people), and a long chain of command (meaning there are many layers of manangement. Eg. Top manangement [CEO, GM], Middle Management [Department Mangers], and then First-Level Supervisors [Team Leaders])
Now you need to know the differences between the different structrues, and the pro's and con's so.
The CS theory use's the standard Planning, organising, and controlling (Dont get mixed up with 'PLOC' from year 11)
- Planning
- Working out what the business is to achieve (objectives)
- Determining the way this will be done (stratergies)
- Coordinating all the activities needed to achieve the objectives.
- Organising
- What tasks are to be done.
- Who will carry out the tasks
- How the tasks will be grouped together.
- Who will be in positions of authority.
- Controlling
- How to effectively measure what is happening in a business.
- What is actually happening compared with what was planned.
Summary
Characterised by a heirarchical organisational strucutre, based on division of labour, with a long chain of command and a short span of control.
Pro's - Efficient and productive, with the aim of minimisng waste and making workers word hard.
- Good at determining the best (read: Efficient) way to do things.
Con's - Workers treated as machines.
- There jobs were highly-specialised (llike a production line)
- So workers were unhappy. High absenteeism, high turnover bla bla bla.
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