- Classical management theorists were concerned with the structures and mechanisms of
organisations but they ignored the 'people-side' of management.
- It reduces the workers role to that of a rigid adherence to methods and procedures over
which they had no discretion.
- It led to the fragmentation of work on account of its emphasis on the analysis and
organization of individual tasks and operations.
- It put the planning and control of workplace activities exclusively in the hands of
management.
- It ruled out any realistic bargaining about wage rates since every job was measured,
timed and rated scientifically.
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