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Management basics
History of Management
SWOT
Management Vocab
Systems Theory
100
The process of working with and through individuals and groups and other resources to accomplish specific goals.
What is management?
100
Only fragmented ideas and philosophies.
What is preclassical?
100
In a SWOT analysis these boxes deal with the present.
What are strengths and weaknesses?
100
The tendency of systems to decay over time.
What is entropy?
100
The various human, material, financial, equipment, and informational resources required to produce goods and services.
What are inputs?
200
The set of core activities that defines the role of managers in a business environment
What are the four functions of management?
200
Taylor’s theory which believed in studying work via time-and-motion studies.
What is scientific management?
200
In an SWOT analysis these deal with the external environment.
What are opportunities and threats?
200
a set of cooperative relationships with individuals whose help is needed in order for a manager to function effectively.
What is network?
200
The products, services, and other outcomes produced by the organization.
What are outputs?
300
The first key function of management. No project, task, or goal can be completed or achieved without doing this properly; involves many day to day tasks such as scheduling, budgeting, and proper resource allocation.
What is planning?
300
The management belief in the sharing of power and that groups can control themselves. The Hawthorne studies were influential despite controversies over how they should be interpreted
What is behavioral/ human relations?
300
In a SWOT analysis these are considered to be positive attributes.
What are strengths and opportunities?
300
A set of interrelated parts that operate as a whole in pursuit of common goals.
What is a system?
300
Information about the results and organizational status relative to the environment.
What is feedback?
400
There is a significant difference between managing and this when working with professional teams.
What is leading?
400
A theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review.
What is hierarchy of needs?
400
In a SWOT analysis these are considered to be potentially negative factors.
What are weaknesses and threats?
400
The ability to choose appropriate goals and achieve them
What is effectiveness?
400
This type of system is less likely to recognize the need for differentiation.
What is closed?
500
This process can also be considered the backbone of all the management functions due to the fact that this step is more direct.
What is organizing?
500
Theories of human motivation and management created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. These theories describe two contrasting models of workforce motivation applied by managers in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communication and organizational development.
What is theory X and theory Y?
500
The elements in the environment that the business or project could exploit to its advantage.
What are opportunities?
500
The ability to make the best use of available resources in the process of achieving goals.
What is efficiency?
500
A system that operates in continual interaction with its environment.
What is open?