Compare and Contrast Classical and Human Relation Management

CLASSICAL AND HUMAN RELATION MANAGEMENT 1
Compare and Contrast Classical and Human Relation Management
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CLASSICAL AND HUMAN RELATION MANAGEMENT 2
Compare and Contrast Classical and Human Relation Management
Different theories of management have been implemented to ensure effective
operation in various organisations. In the wake of industrialization, there was a
misunderstanding between executive managers and their employees. To eradicate such miss
happening, there was a need to enhance the way in which workers and management conduct
their activities (Nhema 2015, p. 167). Therefore, different management theories were
developed to increase productivity and lower friction between managers and their employees.
In this essay, we expound on the classical theory of management and human relations
management while comparing and contrasting the two-mode of management.
Classical management approach was established with its paradigm based on industrial
management (Kitana 2016, p.16). The traditional approach to management is the best mode
of management because it focused on ensuring efficiency with the managers given a chance
to do it in diverse ways. With classical or traditional management approach, aims at
specialization with the workers encouraged to specialize in a given task while encouraging
the division of labor (Kitana 2016, p.16). It has to be noted that managers using the classical
methods of management were advised to use economic motives to motivate worker and
increase their rate of production. However, this method of management has been termed to be
unitary since the top executive only makes decisions before trickling down to the middle
managers who dispense it to the workers. The top manager has all the powers of dictating
what is to be adopted by different middle managers. More so, the classical approach to
management assumed that people are money oriented; hence, the use of economic incentives
would increase their production rate (Nhema 2015, p.170).
Human relations theory of management was different from the classical model of
management because it focused on using other forms of motiving workers other than money
(Collings, Wood, and Szamosi 2018, p.14). This approach of management assumes that