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Explain the criticisms of Human Relations Approach.
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(1) Human relations approach creates a group of persons who create difficulties by putting excessive demands.
(2) Its concepts can be understood by a matured and experienced manager.
(3) This approach generates group tendency and dependency on the part of management to manipulate the behaviour of their subordinates.
(4) It breeds mass conformity with the workers and thus discourages individual development.
(5) Human relations approach has ignored the external economic factors, de-emphasising of class- struggle, ignoring the role of unions, supporting the status quo (e.g., in recommending the identification of the individual worker's objectives with the company's objectives).
(6) Chris Argysis has said that "people need not always be friendly and like each other, that the individuals may not be most important part of an organisation, that no one can develop anyone except himself, even that "Cow Sociology." It has been said that "there should be more behavioural science—less human relations.
(8) Some other assumptions that have been challenged are: (a) that the leader who tries to get close to his men is a more effective leader; (b) that an effective leader is one who avoids hostile and aggressive attitude being directed toward him by his own men; and © that group operations attain greater efficiency if more attention is paid to the informal composition, aspirations, etc.
