"MANAGERIAL JOBS ARE THE SAME IN BOTH LARGE AND SMALL ORGANISATIONS"
ESSAY 1.
In this essay I will critically evaluate the statement;
"Managerial jobs are the same in both small and large organisations." For this purpose I will apply work from different theorists, journal articles and examples of management in history. I shall then apply Mintzberg's, Fayol's and Katz' proposed categorisation schemes of management to prove that the statement is correct. I will endeavour to demonstrate that managerial jobs are all the same in all organisational sizes. This contributes to the thesis that the "job" of a manager is universal regardless of organisational size.
Management has been used in different ways for thousands of years. It has shaped how we manage home life, studies, ourselves, work, others. In this case management is described by Robbins et al as being,
the process of coordinating work activities so that they are completed effectively and efficiently with and through people.
All organisations regardless of size use management as a way to achieve their goals. An organisation according to Robbins et al is,
a deliberate arrangement of people set out to accomplish some specific purpose.
Therefore organisational management seeks to accomplish a specific purpose by coordinating work activities that are completed efficiently and effectively.
A small organisation is an independently owned and operated, profit-seeking enterprise with fewer than 20 employees. A large organisation- an arrangement of over 21 people set to accomplish specific goals for a profit-seeking enterprise.
This is the best way for an organisation to be successful. Henri Fayol a French industrialist in the twentieth century, belie ...