Question

1. During Covid-19 crises, companies have to take many precautions affecting the whole management system in their organizations. If a) Frederick Taylor, b) Elton Mayo, c) System Approach Specialist, d) Contingency Approach Specialist witnessed Covid-19 crises, what would each of them suggest to today’s managers?

2. During Covid-19 crises, what do you suggest to managers to make more ethical decisions?

3. Compare mechanistic and organic organizations. Whichis easier to manage according to you? Why?

Answer 1

1. Frederick Taylor whose scientific management theory would suggest to break down jobs to micro levels in order to perfect each set and speed up production, would suggest Managers to open the lines of work for the labourers, and continue work with sources replaceable for those who are found sick and positive with Covid 2019. Managers should think and scientfically manage the job to be finished whereas employees should merely do. as per the prescribed steps of the various tasks to carry out the job. The Covid 2019 crises would have compelled Frederick Taylor to redesign the hirarchy as Managers not able to physically follow up the tasks would have to delegate to the employees to a certain extent.

b) Whereas Elton Mayo would pushed harder his horizontal management do let employees perform as per their capabilities and efforts as he believes all empoyees like to be part of an enironment which has supportive teams and development & growth is appreciated. Hence in the Covid 2019 crises motivating the employees to self indulge towork harder with a incentive or goal to achieve will compel them to work as well maintain the basic rules of hygiene etc at work in order not to get infected andkeep the industies producing.

c) System Approach Specialist: His advise to Managers would be to go in line with the requirement of the market and exclude that which is not required. In other words to concentrate only on the profit generating products and services of the organization.

d) Contingency Approach Specialist : Contingency Approach suggest situational approach. Stable environments should opt for mechanistic structure and emphasize centralization as per the Taylor Theory whearas unstable environments should opt for organic structures with decentralization and to achieve flexibility and achievability.

2) I would suggest Managers to opt a midway between the two approaches where the Management Policies are Centralized but operations are decentralized. in order to achieve the best duing unstable environment of Covid2019. Hence, Leaders will have to be nominated more so on a horizontal hirarchy whereby guidelines and process work allocated as a responsibility and based on additional incentives and end product to be matched to the process to it best inorder to fulfil the incentives.

3) Mechanistic Organisation

1. Tall Structure Hierarchical & Bureaucratic
2. Highly Centralized authority
3. Formalized Procedure & Policies
4. Specilized Functions & Tasks
5. Definite Chain of Commands
6. Less Deviation
7. One Way Communication
8. More Stable & Simple to organize

Organic Organisation

1. Horizontal Structure.
2. Flatness in organisation in terms of hirarchy
3. Low Specialization
4. Decentralisation : informal discussions
5. Involvement of employees in decision making
6. Adaptability & flexibility
7. Two way rather horizontal communication
8. Unpredictable but has proved to be happy place to work in recent times.

In my opinion, 100% academic qualifications and specilisation in their own skills or subject required to work in groups with interlinked programming or grouping of work process, are good to be organic organisation eg. Google in todays times.

Wheareas, organisations requiring class 4 workers with minimal educational qualifications who carry out instructions need to be mechanistic orgnisations  like Ford or Boeing .