Management 1A
MNG1502
Department of Business Management
Assignment 01 for 2021
As per updated Tutorial Letter 001/3/2021
Due Date: 05 May 2021
Due to the ministerial request to extend the 2021 registration dates, Unisa had to amend both
the semester dates and the assessment arrangements for the 2021 academic year.
During 2021 we will have only one semester and only one tuition and assessment period.
QUESTIONS [20 marks]
Chapter 1
, 1. Which classic approach to management focused on managing the total organisation
through planning and the organisation of people in the workplace?
1 Administrative management
2 Bureaucracy
3 Scientific management
4 Quantitative management
Answer:
Refer to page 7-8 of the prescribed textbook:
Classical approaches
Three classical approaches to management can be distinguished:
1. scientific management
2. bureaucracy
3. administrative management.
Administrative management
Smit and Cronjé (2002: 39) state that ‘while scientific management focused on increasing
the productivity of the worker ... [administrative management] ... grew out of the need to
find guidelines for managing complex organisations such as factories’. Administrative
management focused on managing the total organisation through planning and the
organisation of people in the workplace.
MNG1502
Department of Business Management
Assignment 01 for 2021
As per updated Tutorial Letter 001/3/2021
Due Date: 05 May 2021
Due to the ministerial request to extend the 2021 registration dates, Unisa had to amend both
the semester dates and the assessment arrangements for the 2021 academic year.
During 2021 we will have only one semester and only one tuition and assessment period.
QUESTIONS [20 marks]
Chapter 1
, 1. Which classic approach to management focused on managing the total organisation
through planning and the organisation of people in the workplace?
1 Administrative management
2 Bureaucracy
3 Scientific management
4 Quantitative management
Answer:
Refer to page 7-8 of the prescribed textbook:
Classical approaches
Three classical approaches to management can be distinguished:
1. scientific management
2. bureaucracy
3. administrative management.
Administrative management
Smit and Cronjé (2002: 39) state that ‘while scientific management focused on increasing
the productivity of the worker ... [administrative management] ... grew out of the need to
find guidelines for managing complex organisations such as factories’. Administrative
management focused on managing the total organisation through planning and the
organisation of people in the workplace.
