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Abhijeet S
Approach to Management Analysis
The various approaches to management analysis are:-
1) The Empirical or Case Approach
2) Inter Personal Behavior
3) Group behavior
4) Cooperative social
5) Socio technical system
6) The Decision Theory Approach
7) System
8) Mathematical
9) Contingency
10) Mintzberg Manner General
11) Mckinseys’ 7 - S Approach
12) Operational Approach
Our focus will mainly be on the operational approach and system approach. Out of 12 management approached mentioned in the BMS course
The system approach to operational management:
Thus the enterprise receives inputs, transforms them and exports the outputs to the environment.
- Different organizations have different approaches to management.
- According to Koontz and Weihrich they have identified twelve approaches for studying management.
- The variety of approaches to management analysis and the number of differing views have resulted in much confusion as to what management is and how managerial events should be analyzed this situations has been called as ‘management theory jungle’
The various approaches to management analysis are:-
1) The Empirical or Case Approach
2) Inter Personal Behavior
3) Group behavior
4) Cooperative social
5) Socio technical system
6) The Decision Theory Approach
7) System
8) Mathematical
9) Contingency
10) Mintzberg Manner General
11) Mckinseys’ 7 - S Approach
12) Operational Approach
Our focus will mainly be on the operational approach and system approach. Out of 12 management approached mentioned in the BMS course
- 1) This approach to management attempts to bring together the pertinent knowledge of management by relating it to the functions of managers commonly known as management process.
- 2) Management functions are universal irrespective of the type of organization or level of management in an organization
- 3) It was found useful and understand by practicing managers.
- 4) The operationalists believe that fundamentals of management are universal but situations and problems faced by managers may vary.
The system approach to operational management:
- 1) The basic idea of system approach is that any object must rely on a method of analysis meaning it is dependent on its internal environment it is a part of larger systems such as the industry to which it belongs the economic system and society.
- 2) A system is a combination of parts, subsystems. Each part may have various subparts. When a system is considered as a system without the reference to the system of which it is a part, it has the same features of a system.
Thus the enterprise receives inputs, transforms them and exports the outputs to the environment.
- 1) The inputs from external environment may include people, capital and managerial skills as well as technical knowledge and skills and claimants to enterprise may include financial institution and labour unions.
- 2) It is the task of managers to transform the inputs in an effective and efficient manner into outputs thus the focus is on finance, production, personnel and marketing.
- 3) Commission is essential to all phases because it integrates the managerial functions; it is through commission that one determines whether events and performance conforms to plans.
- 4) Effective managers will regularly scan the external environment.
- 5) It is the task of managers to secure and utilize inputs to enterprise to transform them through managerial skills.
- 6) It is important that in the system model of operational management some of the outputs become inputs again. The satisfaction of employees becomes an important human input.