Lecture 2 Management as a school of thought

We looked at Douglas McGregor's X v Y approach to management .. I guess I fell into the politically correct trap of grading my management style a high Y somewhere >60.
Most of my managers over the years I think have been high X with value of about 45 .. I believe most managers have moved somewhere in the mid range between X and Y over the last 10-15 years moving more toward Y but I don't think anyone comes close to true Y management in practice .

Time and motion studies by Fredrick Taylor and the Gilbreiths reminded me of the Charlie Chaplin film "Modern Times" which is a satire on this approach

Planning and Gantt charts - I am familiar with this from my project management role and study.
This is a science in itself with critical path analysis Earned value etc .. Most project managers use these tools to present the current status rather than using the full capabilities to make their organization and planning of the project more efficient.

Max Weber and "Bureaucracy" - There has been a shift away from too much of this in UK and USA .. with demands in politics for more open government, less red tape and less "gobbledygook" . I assume this has filtered into organizations as well.

Israel does seem to be back in the 80's well behind on these fronts both in Bureaucracy and with labor relations with Labor Unions still trying to preserve the old hierarchies and fighting the old battles. In US and UK the unions were long ago broken by Thacherism and Reaganomics

On Hawthorn Studies and the move towards Soft management styles - My experience dealing with HR has been pretty negative.
Though companies seem to offer more and more rewards and perks and give the illusion of caring .. when it comes to the crunch they are of course there to forward the interests of the company.

Systems approach with inputs and outputs reminded me of work I have done on improving business processes within companies using models such as ITIL

Contingency approach - Take the best of all worlds and use where appropriate .. Makes sense ...