ARE 112 Final Questions and Answers (Graded A+)

Optimizing - ANSWER-Developing a strategy to choose the best option MECE - ANSWER-Mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive Classical management - ANSWER-Focuses on productivity, efficiency, and output of workers- broken up into Scientific management & bureaucracy Scientific management - ANSWER-Taylorism. Designing jobs with standards leading to efficiency, selecting workers to fit the job design, training workers to fit the design. Bureaucracy - ANSWER-Division of labor, hierarchy of authority, formal rules, impersonality, promotion on merit Administration - ANSWER-Planning, organizing, command, coordination, control, unity of command- no one has more control than the boss Behavioral school of management - ANSWER-An attempt to increase productivity by understanding people as it is easier to change the organization than change the people Anthony's management hierarchy and the four layers - ANSWER-Organizational members, operational control, management control, strategic planning Maslow's theory of human needs - ANSWER-Physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, self-actualization needs Theory X - ANSWER-Assumes people do not like to work and want to be led (McGregor)