Management
As organizations become larger in both scope and scale, the need for both management and leadership compounds. Many organization problems today, correlate heavily to a lack of true management. Aspects such as fraud, high employee turnover, product recalls, and strikes, all have origins with management. To better combat many of these negative influences, companies must hire, attract and retain talented management. In order to do so, many companies use the administrative management theory of management. This theory emphasizes the use of planned procedures, job specialization, and merit pay to help facilitate business objectives. I believe this theory to be the most useful in regards to managing an organization. For one, specialization of labor helps increase operational efficiencies with a business. In addition, planned procedures allow both employees and management to have clearly defined goals and job expectations. Finally pay based on merit provides incentive for employee and management to perform their job correctly (Lewis, 2006).
To begin, Adam Smith, and economic pioneer, once wrote a book describing the specialization of labor and its merit. Through use of the administrative theory of management, individuals are required to specialize in a particular task or objective. In regards to managing an organization, this theory is particularly useful as it creates efficient operations. Through repetition and the acquisition of knowledge, employees generally become more productive. Overtime, employees begin to specialize in the particular task being...
Through this acquisition of knowledge, these individuals become more efficient as they are able to product more product than their inexperienced counterparts. This is particularly true for industries that rely heavily on high fixed costs. Industries such as manufacturing rely heavily on the concept of specialization of labor to reduced costs throughout the entire manufacturing plant (Paul, 2005).
In addition, specialized labor helps management to identify solutions to inefficient operations within the facility. Front line employees are particularly useful as they often have the most accurate knowledge regarding changing consumer sentiments or business operations. By specializing in a particular field, these individuals can better assess changes that need to be made to business operations. These individuals can they recommend solutions that management can review and implement. Through the use of specialized labor management is better able to achieve company goals through collaboration with employees irrespective of title or tenure.
Management often requires the need for clearly defined goals and expectations. The administrative theory helps facilitate the process of creating clearly defined expectations within a company. By knowing what is expected of them, employees are more apt to meet those expectations. Recent studies have shown that employees often complain about a lack of information regarding the company's goals and objectives as a deterrent of job performance. By clearly defining what the business aims for the future are, employees…
