History of Management

An effective organizational structure for an internet company such as Google would not be the same for a manufacture company such as General Motors. Another___________ factor is the country in which the company operates.U.S management methods do not work well in France.

Contingency

One graphic representation of the tasks required over the course of a project is called

Gantt Chart

Mary Parker Follett

Has been called the "Mother of modern management "

Taylor's four principals of Scientific Management includes which of the following?

Heartily cooperate with men to ensure all the work is done in accordance with the science that has been developed

Which is a limitation of scientific management?

Knowledge-based work can't be observed and broken down for efficiencies like manual labor

A motivation for scientific management,which uses time and motion studies and work standardization is to:

Make manual labor run more efficiently

Walmart developed it;s supply chain and inventory management to be very efficient and set the standards for other companies. These specialties are grouped under

Operations management

The Gilbreth's research provided many important principals that were later incorporated into

Quality assurance and quality control programs

Scientific management engendered workers fears that all but an elite few would soon be out of work.The humanistic approach focused on

The effects of group dynamics on efficiency and productivity

Frank and Lilian Gilbreth

Wrote Cheaper by the dozen. Worker welfare and motivation,ergonomics and industrial psychology

Henri Fayol

Wrote General and Industrial Management. For site,Organization,command,coordinate, control. 5 duties of management

Mary Parker Follett has been called the "mother of modern management".Her ideas anticipated employment relationships that are more common today than in the 1920's.She focused on the

informal and lateral process within an organization

Mayo theorized that management worker at the Hawthorne Western Electric plant were motivated more by

social dynamics than by economic or encirclement factors