Defintion
Where people work together to achieve success
What is an organization?
Wilson
What is the name of the volleyball in Cast Away?
Belief that employees will be more engaged when given autonomy?
Mary Parker Follet
Data made useful and meaningful for decision making
What is Information?
Someone who leads an organization
What is a manager?
Where customers comes first in business hierarchy
What is the upside-down pyramid?
The belief that your position should be based on merit and not social status
What is bureaucratic management?
Who Max Weber?
A choice among possible alternative courses of action
What is a decision?
Are responsible for work activities that make direct contribution to organization's outputs
What are Line Managers?
Raw facts and observations
What is Data?
Assumes that employees hate their job
What is theory X?
Who made administrative principles?
who is Henry Fayol?
Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion
What is intuitive thinking?
What are staff managers?
People in positions because of their social status
What is Nepotism?
People who are surrounded by a strong community work better than incentives
Hawthorne Studies
Theorist founded the X and Y theories
Douglas Mcgregor?
a crisis involves an unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
What is Crisis Decision Making?
Responsibility for a single area of activity such as finance
What is a functional manager?
A satisfied need is not a motivator behaviour
What is Deficit Principle?
Theory that places emphasis on mathematical techniques, comp technology and software for problem solving
What is Quantitative Management?
This theorist found the Adult personality theory?
Chris Argyris?
Offer complete information about possible action alternatives and their outcomes
What is a certain environment?
Are more responsible for more complex units that include many functional areas
What is a General Managers?