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Optimizing and satisficing - ANSWER--organizations exist to achieve a goal by either optimizing or satisfying MECE a. Mutually exclusive: b. Collectively exhaustive: - ANSWER-1. Mutually exclusive: Is each issue a separate and distinct issue? 2. Collectively exhaustive: Does every aspect of the problem come under one, and only one, of the issues 3. One reason this is done is to guard against making an early selection of solutions before all the facts are known. Classical management a. Scientific management b. Bureaucracy c. Administration - ANSWER-a. Scientific management -Frederick Taylor -"Taylorism" -design jobs with standards leading to efficiency -select workers to fit the job description -train workers to follow the design -support workers by planning their work b. Bureaucracy -Max Weber -bureaucracy with logic, order,and legitimate authority -not an organization based on social standing --division of labor --hierarchy of authority --formal rules --impersonality --promotion on merit c. Administration -Henri Fayol -administration of the firm leads to the "A" in MBA and more recently to "management" --planning --organizing --command --coordination --control --unity of command (no one has more than one boss)