MANAGEMENT

Management and Managerial Work

Management and Managerial Work

Introduction

In this essay we will be discussing how management practices evolved in the organizational setups and how are they different today as compared to the historic times. We will also highlight the time when the employees were the slaves in the U.S. economy in organizations and that is when the concept of management emerged. This part is conveniently excluded by the historians when it comes to discussing management practices. However slavery has left a very strong imprint in the management practices and the ideas, till today. Followed by this discussion, the essay will further put light on the current managerial practices in organizations and how the control over the employees has changed over time.

In the discussion section, there will be a detailed comparative analysis on how different the management practices of today are and how they have changed over time as they have evolved and applied in different organizations. We will further discuss how the power over employees keep them motivated towards their goals in the organization and overall boosts up the organizational behaviour of the employees.

However, today the management perspective is also quite a different one than just being a bureaucratic one, where the managers only passed orders to the employees. Today, there is less of an authoritative power over the employees and more of collaboration and interaction between the managers and the employees/the staff. The essay will also highlight the impact of these new ideas evolving in management and how they are contributing in the better performances of the employees and the organization on the whole.

Discussion

Evolution of Management

The history of “management” takes us back to the US pre Civil War Slavery where there are evident signs of the emergence of management. Although at that time, management was associated with exploitation and domination of the superiors over the workers/slaves that served them in those times. This aspect of management does question the legitimacy of the practices in those historic times.

In a study on slavery in the management histories, Jacques (1996, p. 42) has pointed out that the US Civil War was more of a contest between the national authority and the state. It involved a bit of both. It can be recognized as the war that led to the Industrial Revolution in U.S. Wherever historians mention about the Civil War, it immediately takes us to the foundation of management. During the war, there were many regions where there was the concept of bureaucratic power to get things done from the people.

Soon after the war, the southern region had greatly put their investment in the U.S. slaves as in those times they considered People/Slaves to be one of the greatest assets because it is laid out in the studies of management, that management is a process of getting work done with the people and through the people in the most efficient and effective manner.

However, today the modern idea of management does not intend to associate managerial practices with the historic views ...