- To what extent is ‘scientific management’ an appropriate way to manage in the 21st century?
Your essay should include the following four elements
management.
approach prevails in contemporary management practice.
management is relevant to contemporary managers. This will also
involve a discussion on the challenges 21st century managers might
face.
management.
The assignment requires you to read widely and engage in a high level of
critical thought. Your essay should outline the various and competing
perspectives on management of organisations and critically appraise their
usefulness.
Accordingly you should consider the theoretical perspectives offered in
relation to examples from contemporary organisations. This will involve you in
keeping abreast of current issues in the news.
The essay also requires you to consider your own organisational experience
in the light of these perspectives. This might be where you are working or
have worked but it need not be; we are all familiar with one form of
organisation or another whether it is an educational organisation (school or
university), a recreational organisation (football clubs or drama group), a
voluntary organisation (charity or political lobbying group), a religious
organisation (temple, church, mosque) and so on.
The scheme of work indicates some of the areas we will explore in lectures,
your essay may also explore these areas but you are not confined to them;
you can delve into areas we have not touched on in the lectures but the
requirements of theoretical discussion, critical thought and contemporary
examples remain.
You are not required to produce large amounts of undigested data from
company reports, websites or any other source. You may use such data to
help construct your argument, but sparingly and only in a focussed manner.
A critical evaluation of the main features of the scientific
A detailed assessment of the extent to which this
A detailed discussion on the extent to which scientific
A critical discussion of alternative ways of understanding
