An approach to managing organizations that likens organizations to machines, with a focus on maximizing efficiency, is called the __________ human relations approach. human resources approach. classical management approach. systems approach.

The classic approach to management emerged as a management model founded by Taylor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, called scientific management, whose ultimate goal was to maximize productive efficiency in order to get the worker to produce more in less time.

Scientific management presents four fundamental principles proposed by Taylor:

Principle of planning : Substitution of empirical methods by scientific methods, there is a rationalization of work through time and execution studies.
Principle of worker preparation : Workers should be selected to work in areas according to their abilities and should be adequately trained so that they can produce more according to the demands of the organization.
Principle of Execution : It requires tasks and responsibilities to be distributed so that the work is performed with greater rigor and discipline within an established average time. From this came job and job designs that split functions to maximize productivity.
Standardization: Scientific methods were implemented to reduce costs and uniformity. The work is overseen by a number of expert supervisors and the man is seen as being economical, who is motivated to produce more when he receives monetary rewards.