Over the past hundred years management has continuously been evolving. There have
been a wide range of approaches in how to deal with management or better yet how to
improve management functions in our ever changing environment. From as early as 1100
B.C managers have been struggling with the same issues and problems that manager face
today. Modern managers use many of the practices, principles, and techniques developed
from earlier concepts and experiences.
The evolution of management though the decades can be divided into two major sections.
One of the sections is the classical approach. Under the classical approach efficiency and
productivity became a critical concern of the managers at the turn of the 20th century. One
of the approaches from the classical time period were systematic management which
placed more emphasis on internal operations because managers were concerned with
meeting the growth in demand brought on by the Industrial revolution. As a result
managers became more concerned with physical things than towards the people therefore
systematic management failed to lead to production efficiency. This became apparent to an
engineer named Frederick Taylor who was the father of Scientific Management. Scientific
Management was identified by four principles for which management should develop the
best way to do a job, determine the optimum work pace, train people to do the job
properly, and reward successfulperformance by using an incentive pay system. Scientific
management was widely accepted with productivity and efficiency improving dramatically
however not everyone was convinced that this approach was the best solution to all
