MANAGEMENT

The Contingency Approach

[Institute's Name]The Contingency Approach

Introduction

No domain or aspect of the modern world can find its substantiality in the haywire or unstructured pattern; especially if the domain belongs to one of the most pivotal and pertinent arenas of the modern world, which is the corporate sector. Numerous scholars and researchers are of the view that discipline and proper structure to the processes and the procedures of every domain is the key to success and proper functionality. This is the main reason that the corporate sector of the modern world and its respective constituents accentuate excessively on the specifications of proper organizations structures, and the manners in which these organization structures are of assistance to the managers for attaining the stated objectives and goals.

The Contingency Approach

The prime rationale and connotations of the contingency approach are attributed, primarily to the management or the organizational structure. However, before assimilating this concept or approach in the light of management or the organizational structure, it is highly imperative that the core idea or concept associated with the pure term of contingency approach is deciphered and comprehended by a naïve mind. The term contingency, itself denotes the possibility of an occurrence of any event.

Therefore, bearing in mind the meaning rendered by the term, it can be assumed by the naïve, yet cognitive mind that contingency approach advocates or refers to a situational approach, which eloquently articulates or rather negates the existence of rationale behind the subsistence of predetermined management rules, via which an organizational can be ruled, governed, structured and propelled towards a designated path that leads to the attainment of the goals and objectives. It pinpoints towards the aspects where the actions, processes, decisions and rules are devised according to the particular situations that the organization faces, as each situation varies in its specifications; therefore, the manners to approach it also vary, and cannot be addressed via the same predetermined facets (Kast, 1979, P. 89).

Its Attribution To The Organization Structure

As mentioned in the introductory and the previous section, the basic affiliation of this term pertains to the context of the organizational structure. Now, for carefully and comprehensively assimilating the attribution of contingency approach to that of the organization structure, it is extremely important the reader/ person, bears in mind the specifications regarding the contingency approach rendered in the previous section. If for the sake of argument, this approach is graded utmost validation that each situation varies in its nature, and hence, the predetermined rules and regulations of the management lose their worth in catering to the same situation in the similar manner; therefore, every situation must be addressed and dealt according to its nature and intensity, devising new set of patterns for the management or the organization.

Hence, it can be enunciated with sheer determinations, that the firms and their respective managers with this belief, conviction and mindset will not attributed any final and resolute structure to the organizations. The structure of the organization will be excessively flexible and without ...