Evolution of Management Thought in Educational Management

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Topic-Evolution of Management Thought
Concept of Evolution of Management Though
Management is considered as an integral part to understand business operation.
Novicevic, Jones and Carrahar (2015) commented that the practice of management is an old
human civilization and the origin of management as a discipline was developed in the late
19th century. Over the decades, management thinkers have tried different ways to organize as
well as classify voluminous information regarding management that has been collected as
well as disseminated. On the other side, Saatci (2014) mentioned that management is the
ability to get things done with resources and people and it might involve base of goals,
planning what to do achieve and having a control to make sure that things are done
accordingly. This concept of management is quite similar to some historical facts; for
example, Garel (2013) mentioned that in an ancient Egypt around 3000-4000 B.C, the
concept of management was practiced in establishing a pyramid which is done Egyptian. The
establishment work involved almost 10,000 men for two decades which covers 13 acres and
it is estimated that such work is not possible to complete without the principles of planning,
organizing and controlling. Likewise, almost 2500 years back, ancient history of China
provides another real world fact that Great Wall of China was 6000km long and this wall was
built to defend the nation against the invaders from north and protect the famous Silk Road
with a very significant trading source. On the other side, Greek history says another similar
fact that they were more aware of application of management principles in the selection of
employees and delegation of authority. According to Sun (2013), Plato’s principle of division
of labour and specialization” is quite similar to the fundamental of management.
When digging into the evolution of management though, it is found that Harold
koontz defined management as an art of getting things done by people in organized groups

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and it is more of an art creating an environment in which people could perform as well as
cooperate towards the achievement groups’ overall goals. Likewise, Taylor (1920) mentioned
the fact management is just an art of knowing what should be done or when it needs to be
done or when to see it is done in the best or the cheapest way. Dembowski mentioned the fact
that management is rather than anything else, of an environment in a setting where people
work together in groups individually towards achieving the overall organizational goals
(Savino, 2016).
In general, it can be mentioned that management is a dynamic process which could
involve a number of elements as well as activities like working the allocation of budgets,
making sure that people receive proper rewards for their work, buying equipment and
materials or making sure that end product or service is accepted by the end users. However,
when it comes to management, there are multiple approaches worth considering the in the
application. Some fundamental approaches of management are behavioural approach,
quantitative approach system approach and contingency approach. Turan (2015) claims that
classical approach is the oldest approach of management thought as its base is pre-date the
twentieth century. The classical approach of management consists of scientific management,
administrative management and bureaucratic management. In the field of scientific
management. According to Federick Winslow Taylor, scientific management is a theory of
management that analyses and synthesizes workflows, with the objectives of enhancing
labour productivity (Witzel & Warner, 2015).
This means that the productivity can be greatly improved by applying scientific
technique to management and for this reason scientific method is often referred as
“Taylorism”. To prove this fact, Taylor has experimented multiple ways to complete tasks to
save time. Consequently, sometimes, the progress is found to be coming from the better tools
(Turan, 2015). For example, Taylor devised “science of shovelling” in which Frederick