Management Perspectives
This perspective focused on "things of production."
What is the classical perspective?
The father of scientific management.
Who is Frederick Taylor?
This way of thinking focuses on the organization as a coordinated whole.
What is systems thinking?
This strategy encourages sales employees to generate sales in the way that works best for them individually.
What is the contingency view/theory?
___________ workers produce more.
What are satisfied workers?
This perspective focused on the needs and treatment of employees.
What is the humanistic perspective?
This person believed that organizations should rely on rules and records for continuity and that these rules are impersonal and applied to everyone uniformly.
Who is Max Weber?
Parts of the system that depend on one another.
What is subsystems?
This strategy trains employees how to use a technique so they can do their jobs more efficiently.
What is the classical management theory/strategy/approach?
This pyramid shows the 5-tiers of motivation.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Another word for humanistic perspective.
What is the humanity of production?
This individual believed that management can be boiled down to (14) general principles that can be applied in any organizational setting.
Who is Henry Fayol?
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is synergy?
This strategy/theory measures sales over time to guide your decisions.
What is management science theory?
This theory states that people dislike working and need to be coerced into doing it.
What is Theory X?
These type of organizations have distinct definitions of authority and responsibility.
What are bureaucratic organizations?
This person outlined eight fundamental necessities.
Who is Charles Clinton Spaulding.
This view states that what works in one setting might not work in another.
What is contingency view?
This strategy/theory pays attention to the personal side of management.
What is the humanistic management theory?
This theory states that people like work, seek responsibility, and are highly capable and creative.
What is Theory Y?
This classical approach focused on labor productivity.
What is scientific management?
This person developed a hierarchy of needs for employees.
Who is Abraham Maslow? Who is Maslow?
This is the opposite of the contingency view.
What is the universality view.
This strategy observes sales figures of each employee and compares the employee's salary with the amount of merchandise sold. Then an employment decision is made.
What is management science?
These studies spurred a revolution in management thinking.
What are the Hawthorne Studies?