The management philosophies governing employee relations are identified as
Authoritarian, legalistic, and humanistic
Authoritarian schools of employee relations
First school of thought, followed by legalistic and humanistic
Pure authoritarianism is
Infrequently found in American business and is steadily declining
Authoritarian management encompasses
The beginnings of organized enterprise, including master-slave relationships
Authoritarian management minimizes
The importance of people
Exploitative autocrat are
Generally cruel leaders who literally exploit their followers for personal gain
Benevolent autorcrats
Look after their followers and make sure that they are well taken care of and looked
after, this benevolence only extended while the followers do exactly as they are told,
without question
Legalistic movement began in
,The 1930s with the passage of wage-and-hour laws and the enactment of labor laws
Under legalistic management, managers now deal with employees out of
A strong regard for employee rights
Two significant influences have resulted in the emergence of humanistic management
1. The still growing system of legislation which brought in legalistic management and
legally obliged humane treatment of employees
2. Found in the continuing impact of the human relations movement in management,
which began to develop and grow during the mid-1900s
The human relations movement granted employees' rights
Prior to the law imposing this
A legalistic manager acts in a certain way because
The law demands it
Humanistic managers act the same way because
They believe it is the right thing to do
Most supervisors have traditionally received their concepts of management from
On-the-job experience
Authoritarianism in employee relations was abetted, extended, and strengthened by the
development of
A system that came to be called scientific management
, Scientific management was aimed at
Efficiency, defined largely by the amount of time required to perform any given task
A resolution of November 1913 American federation of labor referred to the Taylor
system as
"Diabolical scheme for the reduction of the human being to the condition of a mere
machine"
The term 'scientific management' was used by Taylor and his colleagues to describe
Their structured approach to work study through the methods that were used
standardizing techniques and improving efficiency
System or approaches to management emerged along with each other during the early
years of the 1900s
1. Relating to activities in which repetitive work predominated
2 relating to activities in which varied work predominated
The two different approaches were Labled by
Rensis Likert as the 'job organization system' and 'cooperative motivation system'
In Likert's job organization system
Repetitive work is dominant
Management within the job organization system is
Production centered while being focused on the process and its output
The success of the job organization system depends
Almost exclusively on economic motives
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