Management Theories: Mintzberg and Fayol

THE REAL WORLD
MANAGEMENT

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Mintzberg management theory
The management theory propounded by Henry Mintzberg states that organizations
should be broken into simple parts to resolve the complex issue in the organizations (Mintzberg
2015). He also focusses on the breaking up of organizational roles and giving responsibilities to
each of the candidates according to their positions.
There are some basic management that was Mintzberg namely (Mintzberg,
Ahlstrand and Lampel, 2013)
• Simple structure with some managers and multiple executives below them
• Machine bureaucracy consisting of different sectors with different responsibilities and central
decision
• Professional Bureaucracy with independent workers
• Divisional form with work divided and focused by one division
• Adhocracy with informal work structure
According to him, there should be 6 basic parts of an organization –
Strategic apex (Yukl 2013)
Middle line
Operating core
Technostructure
Support staff
Ideology

1.2 Factors that led you to choose the focus
The focus of the theory is to distribute the organizational work into the
executives of the organization and not only combine the whole work into the
realm of a single person. The roles according to the theory can be stated as
namely – figurehead, liason, leader, monitor, spokesperson, disseminator,
entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator and negotiator (Krueger
2014).
The focus of the theory is to make sure that management is taught to
the employees and non-managers through practical experiences and not only
classroom studies. It is really important to know the benefits of working in a
practical atmosphere without only restricting oneself to theoretical knowledge.
1.3 State the purpose and scope
The purpose of the theory is to get a fair idea about the real world
management situation propagated by the theory and to make the organizations
aware of the real life situations that can take place in an organization when
adhered to the concept of dividing the work (Stewart and Shamdasani 2014)
The scope of the theory is to divide the work of the employees and the
managers to their subordinates and also make each of the non-managers aware

2. THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 Henri Fayol – Administrative Management Theory
According to the theory of Fayol, there are 14 principles of administrative
management (Fayol 2016) –
 Division of work
 Authority
 Discipline
 Unity of command
 Unity of direction
 Individual interest
 Remuneration
 Specialization
 Centralization
 Scalar Chain
 Order
 Equity
 Stability
 Initiatives
 Team Spirit
The theory stands out as one of the major theories of the era when
management theory was just starting to take its base (Peaucelle 2015)