MGT 300 Exam 1

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What are the 5 factors of a task environment?

1)customers 2)competitors 3)regulatory agencies 4)special interest groups 5)suppliers

What are the 5 factors of the general environment?

1)technological 2)economic 3)sociocultural 4)legal/political 5)international

Success in the new workplace depends on the strength and quality of _________.

Collaborative teams

_____________, part of the organization's task environment, are those companies that directly compete for the same customers using similar products or services.

Competitors

Juan Perez, the President of WV Railroad, must acquire, analyze, and interpret information received from various sources and to make complex decisions. He will need to rely primarily on his

Conceptual Skills

Each of the following is one of the three basic steps in planning except: • setting objectives • defining the mission • developing a systematic approach to achieve objectives • identifying and assessing conditions affecting objectives

Defining the mission

Who created the Total Quality Management Approach

Deming

Henry Gantt

Developed production scheduling methods Used graphic methods and created the Gantt chart

Carl Barth

Developed slide rule

Mary Parker Follet

Developed the law of the situation and integrated conflict resolution

Henri Fayol

Developed universal functions of management Developed universal management principles

_______________ strategy seeks its competitive advantage by targeting some unique product or service attributes that consumers see as advantageous over the attributes of competing products.

Differentiation

Elton Mayo & F.J. Roethlisberger

Discovered Hawthorne effect Developed informal organization within formal organization Emphasized human element of management

Which management author is credited for introducing the concept of the 'knowledge worker'?

Drucker

Simple/Dynamic Environment.

In this environment, the organization interacts with relatively few key factors, but those that do affect it are dynamic and constantly changing. Precious metals mining, for example, uses a relatively straightforward technology, competition is clearly defined, and government agency requirements are fairly well understood. However, changes tend to occur frequently in demand, prices, and regulatory requirements.

What was Frank's adjustment of the scientific management method?

Increased efficiency without fatiguing employees

Efficiency

a manager's ability to achieve goals through the minimal use of necessary resources

Effectiveness

a manager's ability to set and achieve goals

What are the Hawthorne Studies/Effect?

a powerful incentive toward increased production was due not solely to physical working conditions or financial rewards but also to the Hawthorne effect, whereby workers felt important and appreciated because they were chosen as subjects for a scientific study.

Suppliers

firms that provide the resources, information, raw materials, and other components or activities as inputs for firms

"Let manufacturers be free to make what they please, and let them be free to trade when they please."

laissez-faire (Adam Smith)

The Industrial Revolution

one of the fastest and greatest periods of change and growth in world history

Consumer groups

support consumer interests in their relationship with big business

Simple/Stable Environment

organizations are involved with relatively few key factors and these factors either do not change or change slowly over time. This is the easiest cell in the matrix to manage, for there is relatively little uncertainty in the external environment. However, other organizations may also find it easy to manage, resulting in relative parity among managers and management techniques.

Globalization

the opening of markets to competitors throughout the world

Controlling

the process of determining the ways and means of following-up to ensure that actual performance is leading to goal attainment

Management

the process of effectively and efficiently planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities of employees in combination with other resources to achieve organizational objectives

Planning

the process of establishing objectives and determining how best to achieve them

Human Relations

the process of motivating individuals to achieve a balance of objectives that yield greater human satisfaction and achieve organizational goals

Planning

the process of setting goals and determining the actions necessary to attain them

Vertical integration

strategy of extending a business's scope by taking an activity or function backward toward sources of supply or forward toward the end user

Acceptance Theory of Authority

subordinates will accept orders only if they understand them and are able and willing to comply with them. A key assumption of this theory is that the relationship between a leader and a subordinate is a reciprocal process.

Organizational Culture

the shared philosophies, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns that form the organization's core identity.

What are the 4 important variables to predict competitor behavior?

(1) competitiveness of the industry, (2) the mobility of competitors into or out of the market, (3) the availability of substitute products from other industries, and (4) the relative bargaining power of key players such buyers from the market or sellers to it

What are Fayol's 14 principles of management?

(1) division of work, (2) authority and responsibility, (3) discipline, (4) unity of command, (5) unity of direction, (6) subordination of individual interests to general interests, (7) remuneration of employees, (8) centralization, (9) the scalar chain, (10) order, (11) equity, (12) stability of personnel, (13) initiative, and (14) esprit de corps

What are the 8 areas companies should set objectives?

(1) market standing, (2) productivity, (3) physical and financial resources, (4) profitability, (5) innovation, (6) manager performance and development, (7) worker performance and attitudes, and (8) public and social responsibility.

What are the 4 categories of a complexity/change environmental matrix?

(1) simple/stable, (2) complex/stable, (3) simple/dynamic, and (4) complex/dynamic

What are 3 main reasons special interest groups exist?

(1) the feeling that government, business, and other various powerful organizations are unresponsive to people's needs and wishes; (2) the fact that media attention has been an ally of such groups; and (3) the knowledge that favorable rulings in the courts have made many such groups financially feasible.

What are the two factors of environmental complexity?

(1) the number of key issues operating in the organizational environment (2) the similarity of these factors

How did Follet believe conflict could be resolved?

1) voluntary submission of one side, (2) struggle and victory of one side over the other, (3) compromise, or (4) integration—known today as joint problem solving or principled negotiation

What are the two factors of the framework of external environments?

1)Degree of complexity 2)Degree of change

What 2 management approaches combine to create the contemporary approach?

1) Classical 2) Behavioral

What are the 3 goals of the systems approach?

1) To define relationships both internal and external to the organization 2) To observe and understand the pattern of these relationships 3) To discern the overall purpose of the relationships

What two assumptions should be realized for the behavioral approach?

1) managers must regard the organization as an operating system designed to produce and distribute a good or service efficiently and effectively. 2) the organization is viewed as a social system through which individuals try to find expression for their hopes and aspirations as well as satisfy their economic needs.

What are the 3 types of environments in an organization?

1)General 2)Task 3)Internal

What are the "DO's" of setting objectives?

1. Be specific 2. Set challenging but realistic objectives 3. Establish results-oriented objectives 4. Set a realistic deadline 5. Keep objectives in balance 6. Involve subordinates 7. Follow up

What are the 3 types of managerial skills?

1. Conceptual skills 2. Technical skills 3. Human relations skills

What are managers' duties in scientific management?

1. Develop a science for each element of a worker's job that would replace the old rule-of-thumb method 2. Select, train, teach, and develop workers scientifically (in the past, workers had chosen their own method of production and trained themselves as best they could) 3. Cooperate with employees to ensure that all work was done in accordance with the best available methods of operation 4. Use incentive wages to motivate workers to produce more

What are the "DO NOT's" of setting objectives?

1. Do not move the goalposts 2. Do not have so many objectives that they become meaningless 3. Do not set as objectives things that you have complete control over 4. Do not use words that end in IZE

What are the 5 key parts to the MBO process?

1. Linking organizational goals 2. Focusing managerial planning 3. Involving subordinates in objective setting 4. Establishing SMART performance objectives 5. Increasing communication and interaction

What are the 3 primary functions most organizations are built around?

1. Operations: production, manufacturing, or the generation of service 2. Marketing: distribution, promotion, sales 3. Finance: acquisition and use of funds, budgeting

What are the 3 basic steps of planning?

1. Setting an objective. 2. Identifying and assessing present and future conditions affecting the objective. 3. Developing a systematic approach by which to achieve the objective.

What are the 5 basic steps of controlling?

1. Setting performance standards (goals) 2. Determining methods for measuring performance 3. Measuring actual performance 4. Comparing performance with established standards (goals) 5. Taking corrective action when necessary to bring actual performance in line with the standard

What changes followed the use of the factory system?

1. a higher standard of living 2. extensive changes in management, shifting production from workers' homes to factories 3. new fuel- and water-powered machines that supplanted the effort and energy of human and animal power

Planning is more _______________ when it is done by a single person or group such as at the corporate level.

Centralized

What are the 4 key points of the laissez faire system of economy?

1. government should not interfere with economic affairs 2. if entrepreneurs were left alone to pursue their own self-interest, they would be guided by an "invisible hand" that would cause them to act in "the interest of the whole society." 3. Natural laws, such as the law of supply and demand, would also regulate economic activities to the greater benefit of society 4. a mutual interest existed among workers, who worked harder for more money, and owners, who benefited from the profits derived from the increased production.

What are the two main concepts of administrative management?

1. universality of basic management principles 2. there is a body of knowledge related to the functions of management that can—and should—be taught

What are the 4 elements of bad strategy

1.A failure to face the problem 2.Mistaking goals for strategy 3.Bad strategic objectives 4.Fluff

Integration

A method of constructive conflict resolution whereby the people involved look for ways to resolve their differences so that everyone gets what he or she wants.

Corporate Downsizing

A popular technique designed to eliminate layers of hierarchy and reduce the number of employees in general and managers in particular

social forces

A society's values and lifestyles

____________ consists of a unique company business (within a larger diversified firm) that has its own mission, product or service lines, competition, customers, threats, and opportunities.

A strategic business unit

Who is considered the world's first economist/wrote "The Wealth of Nations"?

Adam Smith

Robert Owen is known as being • the father of human resource management. • socially responsible for his time. • a successful entrepreneur. • all of the above • none of the above

All of the above

Total Quality Management

Approaching quality improvement from a total corporate, process-oriented, and customer-driven concept

Max Weber developed the concept of ____________ which eliminated problems associated with favoritism and nepotism.

Bureaucracy

Short range plans

Can cover anywhere from a day to a year

What was once the most common form of production systems?

Cottage systems

Generic Strategies

Created by Michael Porter, can be adopted by any type of organization, be it a manufacturing, high-tech, or service organization

Demographic forces

Each country's population size, density, age, gender make up, growth rates, and other associated characteristics

When a manager learns that the minimum wage has risen that will impact employment/unemployment, the company is being affected by which of the factors in the general environment?

Economic

How an organization goes about coordinating its resources to accomplish a plan is a key part of the management function of

Effectiveness

What are the two key factors of managerial performance?

Effectiveness and efficiency

A manager's ability to accomplish goals through the minimal use of necessary resources is referred to as:

Efficiency

Whose system of interchangeable parts was the forerunner of the assembly line?

Eli Whitney

Chester Barnard

Emphasized organizational systems Developed subordinate acceptance theory of authority Highlighted importance of leadership

Max Weber

Emphasized role of bureaucracy

Henry Ford

Expanded mass production, assembly line

Frank Gilbreth

Expanded principles of time and motion study

1) A SWOT analysis concentrates only on the internal aspects of a firm. (Type: True or False)

False

Organizations are generally considered to be part of a closed system.

False

Peter F. Drucker

Father of modern management

What are two key things to keep in mind with the environmental complexity/change matric?

First, firms and industries are not locked into one quadrant but may change over time. This gives managers another reason to be always scanning their environments for signs of these possible changes. Second, the ideas about whether to treat the environment as more open or more closed can be related to the speed of change or the amount of complexity.

What two problems are bad strategy based upon?

First, organizations have problems choosing which direction to take the organization and, as a result, either try to include too much in their sphere of influence or try to encapsulate competing directions in which to take the company into one vision. A second problem is that organizations use boilerplate language when performing the strategic planning process below and thus the words really mean nothing

What are the 3 ways time can affect planning?

First, there is considerable time required to effectively plan any endeavor. Second, it is often necessary to proceed with each planning step without full information concerning the variables and alternatives because of the time required to gather the data and calculate all the possibilities. Third, the span of time that will be included in the plan must be considered and addressed.

___________ are firms that provide the resources, information, raw materials, and other components or activities as inputs for firms.

Suppliers

Which of the people you studied in chapter 2 is known for the $5 day, a wage that at the time was almost twice the previous rate for a nine-hour day?

Ford

Who expanded on scientific management practices?

Frank Gilbreth

Founder of scientific management

Frederick W. Taylor

What are the two types of managers?

Functional and general

A manager's _______ skill is demonstrated in the way a manager relates to other people and interacts effectively with them

Human

__________ is defined as opening of markets to competitors throughout the world and is one of the main reasons business environments today are so dynamic.

Globalization

The human relations movement came out of which management theory/approach?

Hawthorne Studies

Who identified the 10 top roles in management?

Henry Mintzberg

What is the model for the Behavioral Approach

High Morale Job Satisfaction Increased Performance

Those macro or general environmental factors that affect all firms and industries arising from outside of the firm's country of origin are referred to as

International factors

What are the 3 categories of managerial roles?

Interpersonal, informational, decisional

Empowerment

Is the process of granting employees authority to make key decisions within their enlarged areas of responsibility.

What are the 4 categories of regulation?

Legal rights of employees Consumers Competition in the marketplace Ecological environment

Who published the first book on management psychology?

Lillian Gilbreth

What level of management was Taylor's main concern?

Lower level

Contingency Approach

Management approach advocating the combined use of various other approaches, based on the assumption that different conditions and situations require the application of different management techniques

Complex/Dynamic Environment.

Managers in this environment have the most difficult managerial challenge of all, for organizations operating here face a great many complex environmental factors which change rapidly. Biotechnology firms, stem cell researchers, and cell phone manufacturers would be examples of industries which are complex and dynamic.

What were the downfalls of scientific management?

Managers neglected to pay proper attention to the human element

_________________ believed that conflict could be resolved by 1) voluntary submission by one side, 2) struggle and victory of one side over the other, 3) compromise or 4) integration.

Mary Parker Follet

Operations Research

Method of pooling the knowledge of research specialists to develop quantitative models that behave similarly to real-world situations confronting decision makers.

Frederick W. Taylor

Motion and Time studies Worker incentive programs Philosophy of gain sharing by increasing productivity

Scientific Management was formally developed by • Fayol. • Owen. • Deming. • Weber. • none of the above

None of the above

Organizations are generally considered to be part of an ________________, which means that the firm is not only affected by the environment but also affects the environment

Open system

_______________ is the shared philosophies, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns that form the firm's core identity.

Organizational Culture

Complex/Stable Environment.

Organizations operating in this environment interact with many important and dissimilar factors. However, the factors do not tend to change frequently or dramatically. Finally, for these first two cells on the matrix, one consideration is what happens when the environment is no longer stable and there is an environmental jolt which upsets the industry and reshapes the environmental landscape. This reshaped environment may or may not remain stable and may shift to one of the two remaining classifications.

How an organization goes about coordinating its resources to accomplish a plan is a key part of the management function of

Organizing

Which of the following is not a formal function of management? • Planning • Controlling • Organizing • Leading • Performing

Performing

Lillian Gilbreth

Pioneered in selection, placement, and training of personnel

Robert, a top-level manager at an advertising agency, spends a significant part of his work day identifying goals for future organizational performance and deciding how to attain these goals. This involves which management function?

Planning

What function is considered the foundation of management?

Planning

_____________________ is defined as the process of establishing objectives and determining how to best achieve them.

Planning

What are the 4 functions of management

Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling

During the industrial revolution emphasis was placed on

Quantity of output

One of the first practitioners of social responsibility in management was the successful industrial executive and management pioneer ___________________________

Robert Owen

When our aging society's preference healthy eating and living increase, the company is being affected by which of the factors in the general environment?

Socio-cultural

When we read that more men are staying home and taking care of the children while the wife works, that is an example of which general environmental factor?

Socio-cultural

It involves decisions made by top management. It involves ultimate allocation of large amounts of resources (time, money, labor, physical capacity). It has significant long-term impact. It deals with issues that are future oriented. It involves more than one function of the business (accounting, marketing, etc.). It focuses on the organization's interaction with the external environment.7

Strategic planning

________________________ is defined as those activities that involve defining the organization's vision, mission, setting objectives, and developing strategies to help it operate successfully.

Strategic planning

The ______________, also known as the operating or industry environment, refers to elements within the external environment that interact directly with the organization.

Task Environment

Which of the following managerial skills is most important at lower organizational levels?

Technical Skills

What is considered the forerunner of modern human resource management?

The Guild System

What was the beginning point of behavioral management studies?

The Hawthorne Studies

Management theories were resurrected during what time period?

The Renaissance

Universality of Management

The functions of management must be performed by managers in all types of organizations, in all cultures of the world. Management is universal in that it includes a systematic body of knowledge comprising principles, guidelines, and other components of management theory

_________________ also known as its macroenvironment, comprises the five factors—technological, economic, sociocultural, legal/political, and international—that affect all industries and firms.

The general environment

What did the findings of the Hawthorne studies become the basis of?

The human relations movement

_____________________________ can be defined as approaching quality improvement from a total corporate, process-oriented, and customer driven concept.

Total Quality Management

Non-managerial employees may also include high skill level employees like engineers

True

_______________ is a diversification strategy that emphasizes adding businesses that have little in common but may be undervalued relative to the purchase price.

Unrelated diversification

A production supervisor is more likely to be involved with planning horizons of how long?

Up to one year

_______________ is the strategy of extending a business's scope by including an activity backward toward suppliers or forward toward the end user.

Vertical Integration

Cottage System

Work was performed in the homes of workers in rural or semi rural areas. An independent merchant capitalist would pay the master craftsman for the actual production in their simple thatched cottages

Task environment

composed of those external factors that interact directly with the organization

What was Oliver Sheldon's take on business management?

a business has a "soul" and that management has social responsibilities "as a major partner in the community," alongside capital and labor.

Horizontal integration

a growth strategy implemented by acquiring another firm in the same industry whose products or services are similar

Technology

accomplishing work "using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.

Legal/Political Factors

activities of federal, state, and local governments that may have a significant impact on organizations

Strategic planning

activities that involve defining the organization's vision, mission, setting objectives, and developing strategies to enable it to operate successfully in its environment

General Environment

also known as the macroenvironment, is composed of five factors external to the organization and industry that indirectly affect an organization

Scientific Management

an approach that advocates increasing production while improving employees' working conditions and increasing earnings.

What is the BCG matrix based on?

based on two strategic variables: the various industries' growth rates and the SBU's relative market share.

Focus Strategy

can be used for either the low-cost or differentiation approach and seeks to zero in on the needs of a particular market segment

Sociocultural Factors

can help shape the general environment of organizations. Two important categories of these are (1) demographic forces and (2) social forces

What new production system advanced the industrial revolution?

coal driven steam engine

Charles Babbage

credited with writing the first treatise on management in the industrial age

Organizational mission

defines the fundamental, unique purpose that the organization attempts to serve and identifies its products or services and customers

Centralized planning

done by a single person or group such as a corporate planning department

Decentralized planning

each division or department is responsible for planning its own operations, with little if any guidance from the central planning group

Human Relation Skills

effective communication, conflict handling, trust building, listening, and supporting behaviors necessary to lead, motivate, and get along with subordinates, peers, bosses, and even outsiders

Behavioral Approach to management

emphasized favorable treatment of employees rather than focusing solely on their performance or the organization itself

Objectives

end results toward which organizational activities are aimed

Balanced Scorecard Approach

firms start off developing the strategy by exploring what business the company should be in and why, outlining the key issues the company faces, and deciding how best to compete. Next, through the balanced scorecard, it translates the strategy to objectives and measures that can be clearly communicated to all employees. At this stage, managers also need to identify and authorize resources for the strategic initiatives started to help achieve the objectives that have been set. In the third stage, firms plan operations to lay out the specific actions that will accomplish the strategic objectives. Priorities are set for process improvement plans, sales plans, allocation of resources, and capital budgeting. The fourth stage monitors the progress of strategic and operational plans through operational review meetings and assesses and identifies barriers to progress on objectives through strategy review meetings. Finally, stage 5 tests and adapts the strategy to changing conditions or because some underlying assumptions are found to be incorrect

Administrative Management

focuses on the process of management concerned with planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling activities in such a manner that organizational objectives are achieved.

Resource Based Strategies

focuses on what resources and capabilities a firm does better than its rivals

Organizational vision

forward-looking, graphic, inspirational, and yet feasible idea of the course and direction that the CEO and top managers have charted for the company's future focus of its resources

Each of the following is considered one of Scientific Management's four principles EXCEPT: • develop a science for each element of a worker's job that would replace the old rule of thumb method. • use incentive wages to motivate workers. • select, train, teach, and develop workers scientifically. • cooperate with employees. • give employees autonomy to do their work their way.

give employees autonomy to do their work their way.

Intermediate-range plans

have a span of one to three year

Cash cows

have reasonably high market shares that are competing in mature, slow growing industries

Bureaucracy

having specialized jobs, rigorous rules of behavior, clear-cut authority and responsibility, employment and promotions based upon merit and seniority, and lifelong employment

What are some of the support functions of an organization?

human resources, maintenance, research and development, legal, purchasing, and community relations

What is the basic hypothesis of MBO

if one is strongly attached to a goal, one is willing to expend more effort to reach it than if one were less committed to it

Stars

in fast-growth markets with large relative market share. In order to support their dominant position, substantial resources are required by stars; however, they offer excellent opportunities for future growth and profitability

Question Marks

in high-growth industries but with small market shares. They have appeal because of the industry's high-growth potential. However, in order to maintain their position in a growing industry, or if there is an attempt to increase market share, companies normally would be required to make major financial outlay

Guild System

in this system, clear-cut differences among master craftsmen, journeymen, and apprentices existed

Internal Environment

includes factors over which the organization has a large degree of control, such as its culture, organizational structure, policies, and people

What are the 3 components of a system?

inputs, operations (or transformation processes), and outputs

Systems Approach

integrated universal management functions and strategic planning with consideration of external factors

Long range plans

involve activities from three to five years or longer ahead aka strategic planning

Decisional Roles

involve making decisions that affect people (e.g., employees and customers)

Interpersonal Roles

involve working directly with other people, such as subordinates, superiors, peers, or people outside the organization.

What is the management science approach?

involves mathematical models and advanced technology that can be used to solve a wide variety of problems in decision and operation management

Management by Objective

involves superior and subordinate managers in an organization coming together to set common goals, defining each individual's major area of responsibility in terms of the results expected of him or her, and using those measures as guides for operating the unit and assessing the contribution of each of its members

Dogs

low relative market share, competing in industries with little growth. Their industries are mature or in decline, and typically these SBUs have strong competition with low profit margins.

Drucker created MBO, which means

management by objectives (MBO), a method of redesigning an organization to allow managers and subordinates to set their own goals

Trial and Error Method Management

managers and workers kept trying different methods until they found one that worked

What 3 factors of production were emphasized during the industrial revolution?

new production system, a new economic doctrine, and a new factory system which all were created through quantity input

Closed system

not interactive with or influenced by the outside environment

General manager

oversee a total operating unit, including all the functional (primary and support) activities of the unit

Customers

part of the organization's task environment, are those groups that buy goods or services from organizations

Stakeholders

people or groups, both inside and outside the firm, that have a vested interest in the ongoing activities of a particular company

What function is considered the most important of management?

planning

Special Interest Groups

powerful players in the organization's task environment, such as labor unions and social cause groups.

Social Cause groups

pursue a variety of social interest and causes

Informational Roles

require a manager to receive important information and disseminate it among the appropriate people (stakeholders)

Functional manager

responsible for any one primary or support function, such as production or human resources

Differentiation

seeks its competitive advantage by targeting some unique product or service attributes that consumers see as advantageous over the attributes of competing products

Classical Approach to Management

sought efficiency in organization and operations

Economic Factors

the business cycle which has a direct bearing on the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), the level of business investment (from both private investment and government programs), and total sales.

Open system

tends to be in a dynamic relationship with its environment, receiving inputs from both internal and external sources, transforming them in some way, and producing outputs for the internal and external environments

Technical Skills

the ability to use the knowledge, tools, and techniques of a specific discipline or field, such as engineering, accounting, production, nursing, or sales

Environmental Change

the frequency and extent of changes in the organizational environment

Related diversification

the industries are similar to each other and have commonalities that the firm can leverage

Organizing

the management function of determining the resources and activities required to achieve the organization's objectives and combining them to create a formal structure, assigning responsibility, and delegating authority to carry out assignments

Conceptual Skills

the mental ability needed to acquire, analyze, and interpret information received from various sources and to make complex decisions

How are management levels determined?

the number of employees, the activities performed, and the managers' titles

Concentration

the strategy followed by a firm that operates with a single line of business

Diversification

the strategy of entering a business or businesses that are in a different industry than the current business(es)

Unrelated diversification

the various businesses have little in common

Competitors

those companies that directly compete for the same customers using similar products or services

Technological Factors

those macro- or general environmental factors affecting firms and industries arising from changes in expertise or know-how that affects and transforms the inputs-to-outputs ratio

Cost Leadership Strategy

to seek to gain competitive advantage by producing goods or services more cheaply than the competition while still providing the customer with basic wants and needs

Principle of Transfer of Skill

to the extent a machine becomes more automatic and able to produce large quantities accurately and rapidly, the worker using it requires less skill and becomes a machine tender rather than a skilled craftsman

Leading

utilizing influence to motivate employees to achieve goals

Feudal System

was best adapted to rural and agrarian production, included serfs submitting to their lords and being bound to the land, but they could not be sold


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