Contemporary Organizational Management

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ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
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Executive Summary
This paper presents the issues and ideas surrounding contemporary organizational
management. For a better understanding of this, the paper creates a discussion on the
contemporary management theories. The policies will prepare the ground for the examination of
the issues faced by management in their practice. Owing to that, the paper then proceeds to
examine the elements of organizational culture and how they affect the organizations.
Recommendations are also provided, on the best ways of creating developing effective
organizational management practices.

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Contents
Executive Summary................................................................................................... 3
Introduction................................................................................................................ 3
Key Management Theories that inform Contemporary Practices...............................3
Scientific Management Theory................................................................................ 3
Classical Organizational Theory School...................................................................4
Behavior School....................................................................................................... 6
Developments in Management theory....................................................................7
Contemporary issues faced by managers..................................................................8
Recommendation..................................................................................................... 10
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 11
References............................................................................................................... 12

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Introduction
Management in organizations defines the performance of an organization in the sense that
it defines how organizations run. Contemporary theories provide the direction for most
organizations in the best way of leading and managing human resources and organizational tasks.
The use of former schools of thought and models in the current age would just be dangerous
because of the changing landscape of economic, business and technological environments. In
that case, models and theories of change are more efficient for the application of the current
technologies.
Key Management Theories that inform Contemporary
Practices
Scientific Management Theory
An American Engineer called Frederick Taylor was the pioneer of the scientific
management theory. Along with his associates, Taylor was among the first people to
scientifically study work performance. He started the modern management era and in the early
twentieth century and late nineteenth century, Taylor meant the “awkward, inefficient, or ill-
directed movements of men” as a form of loss in the national scope. He was consistent in trying
to topple over management that was informed by the rule of thumb. He was, therefore,
determined to make a replacement of an old system to actual observations that were timed
leading to a practice that was “the best one”. Taylor strived to share the belief that workload
would be shared and distributed between the management and the workers (Amanchukwu,
Stanley and Ololube, 2015). In that case, the management would play the role of instruction as
the workers performed the labor as individual groups doing what is most suitable for them.
The philosophy of Taylor gave emphasis to the fact that the achievement of result
optimization by forcing people to work hard was a bad practice. The recommendation of Taylor