Modern Management Approaches
Organizations As Systems
Contingency Thinking
100

One of the three goals of Modern Management Approaches.

  • What is improve organization?

  • What is motivate employees?

  • What is improve the workplace culture?

100

A collection of interrelated parts working together for a purpose.

What is a system?

100

This form of organization is hierarchical and rigid. 

What is bureaucracy

200

Modern management has no expectation that one can, or should, find the ________.

What is one best way?

200

A smaller component of a larger system.

What is a subsystem?

200

In bureaucracy, there is a clear division of this.

What is labour?

300

Modern management theory was created to combat what other management system?

What is classical management theory?

300

This type of system transforms resource inputs into outputs.

What is an open system?

300

With contingency thinking, there is no such thing as ______ leaders.

What are good or bad?

400

Modern management acknowledges the fact that individuals have these.

What are different objectives?

400

It is the job of these people to make the organization as coordinated as possible.

What are the managers.

400

Contingency thinking extends to all of these functions. Hint: _________ functions.

What are management functions?

500

This can decrease the efficiency of the company. (Hint: one of the shortcomings of Modern Management Theory)

What is flexibility with employees?

500

In this year, Chester Bernard published his groundbreaking book, Functions of Executive.

What is 1938?

500

When involving contingencies with organizational design, what is one element you may need to consider?

  • What is environment?

  • What is strategy?

  • What is technology?

  • What is size and life cycle?

  • What is human resources?