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Optimizing and satisficing
Ans: -organizations exist to achieve a goal by either optimizing
or satisfying
MECE
a. Mutually exclusive:
b. Collectively exhaustive:
Ans: 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 know n.
Classical management
a. Scientific management
b. Bureaucracy
c. Administration
Ans: a. Scientific management
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-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
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--command
--coordination
--control
--unity of command (no one has more than one boss)
Behavioral school of management
Ans: Behavioral approach: an attempt to increase production
by understanding people as it is easier to change the
organization than to change the people - different than the
Taylor approach.
Anthony's management hierarchy and the
four layers
Ans: -strategic planning -- executives
-management control -- managers
-operational control -- supervisors
-organizational members -- workers
Maslow and his theory of human needs
Ans: a. Physiological needs: food, water, physical well being
b. Safety needs: shelter, protection, stability
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ARE 112 final Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Optimizing and satisficing
Ans: -organizations exist to achieve a goal by either optimizing
or satisfying
MECE
a. Mutually exclusive:
b. Collectively exhaustive:
Ans: 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 know n.
Classical management
a. Scientific management
b. Bureaucracy
c. Administration
Ans: a. Scientific management
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-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
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--command
--coordination
--control
--unity of command (no one has more than one boss)
Behavioral school of management
Ans: Behavioral approach: an attempt to increase production
by understanding people as it is easier to change the
organization than to change the people - different than the
Taylor approach.
Anthony's management hierarchy and the
four layers
Ans: -strategic planning -- executives
-management control -- managers
-operational control -- supervisors
-organizational members -- workers
Maslow and his theory of human needs
Ans: a. Physiological needs: food, water, physical well being
b. Safety needs: shelter, protection, stability
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