Evolution of Management Practice Before Industrial Revolution

Essay
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
In an organisation there are different types of management practices that is applied by
managers. The use of practices depends on organisation need and manager skills and
competencies. It is important to use practices so that business efficiency is improved. Basically,
management practices are some methods and innovation that manager use of make efficient.
Along with it, there are different types of management theories and concepts as well that is
applied by managers (Devaraj, and et.al., 2017). It is evaluated that management practices
evolved before industrial revolution. Then, slowly it became wider and was applied by managers.
This essay will describe about evolution of management practice before industrial
revolution. Also, it will explain about development of practice as scientific discipline.
MAIN BODY
It is necessary to understand about basic knowledge of management theory. This gives idea
of importance of practice and how it evolved in revolution. The revolution started from 1700 –
1900 century and all types of theories emerged within this period. Also, revolution brought use
of technology which enhanced efficiency of companies. This also led to rise in staff efficiency
and perform it in more effective way. Here, there was transformation of entire industry in it as
way of working of worker changed (Ferreira, Mueller, and Papa, 2018).
When revolution occurred there was no particular framework or practice which was used by
companies. It require change to be applied certain practice in it. Before industrial revolution
there were basically 4 types of management practices evolved. It is described as below:
Scientific management theory – It is first theory developed in which Taylor stated that employee
and worker must work together. As most factories in 20th century lack leadership so manager
assigned role to employees. Moreover, manager did not communicated with staff. Besides, no
particular standard were followed in it. Thus, it led to ineffective staff. Hence, Taylor focused on
fair work. He stated that employee must be given more responsibility. For that there were some
methods that is applied to enhance productivity (Fleischman, and McLean, 2020). He gave 4
principles for it. The contribution was that it enabled in working as per principles. Manager
focused on teamwork that led to enhance efficiency of staff. Hence, staff were given training to
work in team.
Then, after some time Henry Fayol gave management theory. He gave 14 principles of
management that focus on administrative practice more. He agreed with Taylor but also stated
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