Key Terms
Each job occurs within a hierarchy in which each position reports and is accountable to a higher position.
What is chain of command?
The _ _ enabled easier and faster production of business correspondence?
What is personal computer
Who Founded Scientific management?
What is Fred Taylor
This type of chart is still widely used in project management.
Gantt Chart
What caused a high need for managers during the industrial revolution?
The change of work from families to factories and skilled to unskilled workers.
A system that sustains itself without interacting with it's environment.
What is a closed system?
The invention of what two things revolutionized the business use of information?
What is Paper & Printing Press
What does Frank Gilberts motion study improve?
What is movement
This was created in the 1990’s that revolutionized information management and is still used today.
The internet
Between domination, compromise, and integration which is best for dealing with conflict?
Integration
What is an open system?
Who introduced the concept of manufacturing using standardized, interchangeable parts?
Who is Eli Whitney
What did Mary Parker believe in?
What is Constructive conflict & coordination
These trackers are used to monitor the number and location of inventory.
RFID Tags
What attributes have a greater impact on employees work? Incentives, management attention, feelings and attitudes, or physical conditions.
Feelings and attitudes
The exercise of control on the basis of knowledge, expertise, or experience.
What is bureaucracy?
What brand Invented hand-to-mouth inventory systems that were similar to just-in-time inventory systems?
Who is Oldsmobile Motor Works
What chart did Henry create?
What is Gantt Chart
This type of work style is becoming more popular in many professions.
Remote/Hybrid work
What concepts led to the ideas of a fair days work and a fair days pay?
Fredrick Taylor's scientific management principles.
Holds that there are no universal management theories, and that the most effective management theory or idea depends on the kinds of problems or situations that managers are facing at a particular time and place.
What is contingency approach?
Gaspard Monge drew what type of object that helped in making standardized, interchangeable parts without first examining a prototype?
What is Three Dimensional
Who created bureaucratic management?
What is Max Weber
What could be a negative consequence of remote work because employees are not monitored as closely as in-person work?
Soldiering
What are the five management functions?
Planing, organizing, coordinating, commanding, and controlling.