LEADING AND MANAGING ORGANISATIONS

Leading and Managing Organisations

Leading and Managing Organisations

Introduction

Every organisation which is yielding good profits always has an innovative strategy to capture the markets and perform better than its competitors. Some companies have innovation in their products like iPhone and iPad by Apple inc. few companies have creative and innovative marketing strategies like coca - cola and unilever. However, the key to success for each of these organisations is to have a dedicated team of resource which works with 100% dedication to provide surplus results.

Management of the organisation is the key to success as the salary paid to the managers is always many times greater than usual resource. Companies gain success only in the case if they have a very firm organisational structure to control and manage the resource employed for them. Usually, every company follows a similar trend of managing by following the classical management theories, but there is one company who not only manages its resource in an unorthodox manner but also yields maximum profits and is gaining success year by year (Cornelissen & Thorpe, 2004).

SEMCO is a company which has denied the existing classical approaches of management and have defined their unique way of controlling their resource by empowering them with authority and power to choose. This has taken the company to new heights in the past 10 years since its new boss Ricardo Semler the youngest MBA graduate of Harvard took over his family business from his father (Henry, 2010).

Discussion

Classical Theories

Classical theories of management and organisation are defined by many writers; they offer similar type of managing techniques by just modifying few basic steps of management. Amongst all the writers the few popular ones are Henri Fayol, FW Taylor, Max Weber, Elton Mayo, Maslow and McGregor are the common ones.

According to the theory suggested by Henry Fayol of France the division of work is equal amongst employees, authority is responsibility based, discipline refers to the respect between company and employees, command is in the hand of the manager, direction of authority is one way where manager assigns work to others, pay should be fair for the form and employees. The authority follows a line from top to bottom. He was the originator who firstly defined management (Fayol & Gray, 1984).

FW Taylor brought a new approach of management which defined scientific administration for managers. It divided each task into discrete and specialized tasks. Every employee was given time frames and they were expected to excel in one of the managing roles.

His emphasis was upon efficiency, he expected the managers to replace the rule of thumb and opinion with science, mangers were expected to divide work between resource upon the basis of their efficiency and time management. His managerial theory suggests that the entire work load was governed by the administration except the actual job role of the resource (Lynch & Cruise, 2005).

Max Weber introduced the bureaucratic management according to which the organisation had a hierarchical model and people performed upon the command of their immediate ...