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Human Relation Theory and Neo-Human Relation Theory

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Human Relation Theory and Neo-Human Relation Theory

Introduction

In these times of rapid change and emphasis on globalization and culture of quality and customer service to students of management continues to be frustrating to see that still exists in many organizations, the application of rigid models mechanistic incompatible with the main variables of both their environment and their culture, particular organizational structures and processes, and, in most cases, are in clear contradiction with the assumptions underlying such models.

At the other extreme, however, it is also necessary to emphasize the risks in our environment the decal Mexican, simple fashion or a naive belief in their inherent goodness, models developed in prehistoric cultural and ideological environments, or under the guise of a false humanism are ultimately more rigid and exploiters of human beings than before. So dangerous is the former as the latter.

Only the knowledge based on serious study and informed of the models we review here, and the particular conditions of each organization can offer a smart choice to discriminate with restraint and intelligence using the most appropriate strategy and not fall into the trap of universal remedies or paternalistic which have caused such disastrous results in the private and public organizations of our country.Origins of the Theory of Human Relations

It has its origins in the United States where it is believed was born, a movement purely U.S. based on its objective to democratize and awareness, as they humanize the rigid concepts of management in adapting their behaviour patterns adopted by the American people, bad habits and work habits.

The psychology and sociology called science human and intellectual influence in terms of application to the organization intended to show the inadequate industrial principles of the classical theory of management (Wren & Greenwood, 1998, pp. 18). The four main causes of the emergence of the theory of human relations are: Need to humanize and democratize the administration, freeing it from the rigid and mechanistic concepts of classical theory and adapting to new patterns of life of the American people. In this sense, the theory of human relations became a typical American movement led to the democratization of the managerial concepts.

The development of so-called human sciences, especially psychology and sociology, as well as its growing intellectual influence and his first attempts to apply to industrial organization. The human sciences came to show, gradually, the inadequacy of the principles of the classical theory.

The ideas of John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy and psychology of Kurt Lewin dynamics were essential for humanism in administration. Elton Mayo is considered the founder of the school, Dewey, indirectly, and Lewin, more directly, they contributed heavily to its conception. Similarly, was instrumental in the sociology of Pareto, although none of the authors of the fledgling movement had direct contact with his works, but only with the most reported in the United States at the time.

The findings of the Hawthorne experiment, conducted between 1927 and 1932 under the coordination of Elton Mayo, have threatened the main postulates of the classical ...