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Org & Mng: Basic Concepts and Theories of
Management: Meaning, Functions, Types,
and Theories of Management With Questions
And Answers
Management - Answer ~ the process used to accomplish organizational goals through planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling people and other organizational resources
~ is an art of knowing what to do, when to do, and see that it is done in the best and cheapest
way.
~ The heart of any organization

True, it is the most important - Answer Is management the most important element in any
organization?

Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing/Leading, Controlling - Answer What are the five
functions of management?

Planning - Answer ~ is a pervasive, continuous, and never-ending activity.
~ It includes identifying the
aims and purposes of the business, its tactics, and developing plans to incorporate and
synchronize activities and enhance the ability of the organization to adapt to the future condition.

Organizing - Answer ~ involves the establishment of an organizational structure
that ensures that each job or position is not duplicated and the corresponding authority is
properly identified with the responsibilities assigned to the person concerned.

Staffing - Answer ~ includes manpower planning, recruitment, selection, and placement
training to supply the manpower of the company and keeping the positions filled - these
positions are created by the organizational structure.

Directing/Leading - Answer ~ involves guiding and leading subordinates. This involves
encouraging people to work towards the attainment of the company's goals and objectives.

Controlling - Answer ~ involves checking the work accomplished against plans or
standards and making adjustments or corrections when new developments or unforeseen events
necessitate.
~ is the measurement and appraisal of activities performed by the subordinates in order to make
sure that the objectives and the plans devised to attain them are being achieved.

Management Theories - Answer ~ are visions of different ways to run a business based
on differing assumptions about how people and systems operate.

, Org & Mng: Basic Concepts and Theories of
Management: Meaning, Functions, Types,
and Theories of Management With Questions
And Answers
Max Weber - Answer ~ was a German sociologist who though that well-run bureaucracies
would become fairer, more impartial, and predictable.

Bureaucratic Management Theory - Answer What type of Management theory is this? This is
based on Max Weber's theory
✔ Organizations should look like the government and the legal system.
✔ A Legal - Rational approach should be done in an organization and not
follow the traditional, family - based nor charisma-based leadership.
✔ Each person's authority is tied to the official position he occupies. The
influence and power brought by his work end once he is not in a position
anymore.
✔ Clear rules should govern performance.
✔ Standardized guidelines should determine hiring and firing.
✔ He was against favoritism or "particularism".

Bureaucratic management theory - Answer This management theory stresses clearly designated
roles for employees and management based on hierarchies that streamline authority and make it
clear who is in charge and who is not. It emphasized division of work, rules and regulations, the
chain of command and impersonal work relationship.

Frederick W. Taylor - Answer ~ was an American who developed the Scientific Management
Theory, which also came to be known as "Taylorism".

Scientific Management Theory - Answer ~ is the systematic study of relationships between
people and tasks to redesign the work process for higher efficiency.

Henry Fayol - Answer ~ is a French Management Theorist who is also considered the
Father of Modern Management.

Administrative Management Theory - Answer ~ the study of how to create an organizational
structure and control system that leads to high efficiency and effectiveness

1. Division of Work
2. Authority and Responsibility
3. Unity of Command
4. Discipline

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