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• 0 The evolution of organisation and management

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• What is the meaning of evolution of human resource management in the business world?

  This is the evolution in our business lifes and the resources we now have to do our management.

• A descriptive aspect

  Description of behaviour of organisations including motives and consequences

• In the HR journey you have 3 different phases between year 1890 untill now. Which phases are this?

  • 2nd industrial revolution
  • World wars
  • Globalization

• A prescriptive aspect

  Advice about recommended organisational design and course of action

• Taylor proposed a division of front line supervisory responsibilities within the prouduction department into 8 seperate areas

  Time and costing
  task and instructions
  processes and their order
  work preparation and allocation
  maintenance
  quality control
  technical guidance
  personnel management

• Direction ensures the coordination between the other activities, direction comprises the mainstray of the function of managers, 5 tasks:

  Planning or anticipating
  organising
  commanding
  
  coordinating
  controlling   

• Major organisations have the following characteristics

  -Clearly and definitely implemented division of tasks 
  -hierarchical command structure 
  -carefully defined authorities and responsibilities
  -impersonal relationships between officials 
  -recruitment based on ability and knowledge instead of relying on favouritism and having the right contacts
  -promotion and reward based on objective criteria and procedures
  -all data is recorded in writing so that complete control of all aspects is possible
  -the power of officials, even senior ones is bound by documented guidelines.

• Organisational structure, management and strategic planning. 1939

  Henry Mintzberg

•  Minzberg 5/7 identified configurations

  The entrepreneurial form
  the machine bureaucracy
  the professional bureaucracy
  the diversified form
  adhocracy (innovative)
  the missionary (ideological)
  the political form

• 1 Environmental influences

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• An organisation can be affected by their surrounding. An organization can be affected by those environmental influences that it does not have significant control over. How are these influences called?

  • Economic developments
  • Technical developments
  • Climate
  • Demographic developments