ABSTRACT
Following its early specification and popularity as expounded in Chapter 2, the classical management COM continued to attract a significant degree of attention in the management literature of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Even in the 1930s however, change was beginning. Some writers in the classical management tradition began to consider the structural aspects of control including both its functional characteristics and its relationship to organisational structure. Another divergence from the classical COM occurred in the shape of a behavioural approach to control. This was an even more marked divergence than the structural approach.
