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In what ways has contingency thinking contributed to our knowledge of management and organisational design.
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3. In what ways has contingency thinking contributed to our knowledge of management and organisational design. As late as the 1950's Classical Management thinking still dominated the way we thought about management and organisational design. Through the works of Fayol, Taylor and Weber we were led to believe that there was one best way to solve every managerial or organisational problem, a universal method which could be used in every circumstance. "Taylor, Weber, Mayo and Fayol all recommended single, universal solutions to management problems, often in the forms of laws and principles1", this therefore seemed to ignore the differing circumstances or external factors that maybe occurring or affecting each managerial problem. Around this time, led by the work and research of British academic Jane Woodward, contingency thinking came to the forefront of managerial thinking. It provided an alternative to classical management theorists, it suggested that there wasn't always one "best way2"...
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