TOPIC THE RISE OF MANAGEMENT THEORY - THE CLASSICAL APPROACH

1. What are the basic assumptions and propositions of Taylor's scientific management? 2. What are the features, basic assumptions, and propositions of the classical approach? 3. Explain Favol's principles of organisation 4. Explain Weber's three pure types of legitimate authority. 5. Explain Weber's Bureaucratic Model (or Ideal' Organisation). 6. Do you agree that scientific management is outdated? 7. List the main advantages and disadvantages of the Classical approach. 8. What is meant by the claim that organizations are 'rational entities' ? 9. What are the main arguments against the Classical approach? 10. Discuss the differences and similarities between the work of Taylor, Fayol and Weber.