Evaluate Whether Rationalisation Provides The One Best Way

In this essay, I will be evaluating whether rationalisation provides the ‘one best way’ to manage and control contemporary organisations. I will be applying my arguments to a specific area of work activity at Junction Hotel, explaining how they would be applied in practice, and evaluating their potential impact on the hotel and on the workers.

Rationalisation is a method that is used to increase a company’s efficiency by reorganising. The effects of rationalisation can lead to a company expanding or downsizing and changes in the company’s strategies.

Bureaucracy is used in organisations to complete large-scale administrative tasks by appointing different people tasks in a methodical way. Bureaucracy has a few characteristics, so let’s see

However, this approach can lead to dehumanization because it gets rid of responsibility, creativity and communication between employees. For example, at McDonalds employees work like robots. From the research I conducted, I noticed that every employee that serves a customer will always take their order in the same way, asking the same question first. This approach would lead to a decrease in efficiency and employee performance because, demotivated employees would give a negative attitude, no job structure and employees could miss out on career opportunities such as promotions and training.

It is essential that Managers at Junction Hotel to understand how teams work so that they can manage each team in the correct way, ensuring that team members know what they are doing and Managers know what to expect from their team. Junction Hotel would experience an increase in productivity and moral because employees would feel like they belong to the company. Junction Hotel could start benefiting from this by implementing new SMART goals which would motivate employees to make sure that they are achieving their goals which benefit the