The Relevance of Scientific Management and Equity Theory in Everyday Managerial Communication Situations
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...There are two main concepts, which are expected to bring superior performance, namely resources and capability (Bell & Martin, 2012)....
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...The classical management approach concerns to threaten workers as machine (Bell & Martin, 2012)....
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...) (Morrison and Milliken, 2000; Bell and Martin, 2012);...
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...…language; lack of attention or skill in directing dialogue to achieve an objective, listening capacity deficit etc.) (Morrison and Milliken, 2000; Bell and Martin, 2012); low listening capacities or incorrect listening (lack of respect beside interlocutor showed through impatience, hurry,…...
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...Hence, contingency theory considers that firm’s capability to respond business environment determines firm performance (Bell & Martin, 2012)....
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...Equity Theory (Adams 1963, 1965) “draws on exchange, dissonance, and social comparison theories in making predictions about how individuals manage their relationships with others” (Huseman, Hatfield, & Miles, 1987, p. 222)....
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...Adams’s Equity Theory can be used by managers to communicate with their subordinates to understand that equity and fairness exists among employees....
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...Equity Theory is important and is communication oriented....
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...John Stacey Adams’s Equity Theory has been a part of classical management literature since 1963....
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...Finally, we will present a hypothetical case example that will help make clear the main points of how managers should use communication to teach their present-day employees the value of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s principles of scientific management and how to use concepts from Equity Theory to confront employees’ feelings of inequity in a modern business environment....
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...Taylor (1998) maintained that the “principle objective of management” is to secure prosperity for both the employer and the employee....
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...'" In fact, Taylor (1998) was absolutely convinced that the common management practice of the day, what he called “initiative and incentives,” was wrong because “practically the whole problem is ‘up to the workman,’ while under scientific management fully one-half of the problem is ‘up to the…...
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...…men…He was a little Pennsylvania Dutchman…We found that upon wages of $1.15 a day he had succeeded in buying a small plot of ground, and that he was engaged in putting up the walls of a little house for himself in the morning before starting to work and at night after leaving (Taylor, 1998, p. 19)....
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