The Evolution Of Management Thinking

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The World of Innovative Management
The Evolution of Management Thinking
The Environment and Corporate Culture
Managing in a Global Environment
Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility
Managing Start-Ups and New Ventures
Planning and Global Setting
Strategy Formulation and Execution
Managerial Decision Making
Designing Organization Structure
Managing Change and Innovation
Managing Human Resources
Managing Diversity
Understanding Invidividual Behavior
Leadership
Motivating Employees
Managing Communication
Leading Teams
Managing Quality and Performance

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The earliest forms of management were on the needs of people.

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Management practices and perspectives vary in response to social, political, and economic changes in the larger society.

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With a focus on things of production, management focus on meeting human needs for greater motivation and engagement to increase effectiveness.

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The struggle to balance the "things of production" with the "humanity of production" has continued from the nineteenth century to today.

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Social business is one of the oldest approaches in the evolution of management thinking and practice.

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The classical perspective on management emerged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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The humanistic perspective contains three subfields: scientific management, bureaucratic organizations, and administrative principles.

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Frederick W. Taylor developed systems thinking and emphasized the 14 principles of management that should guide managerial behavior.

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A criticism of human relations management is that it ignores the social context and workers' needs.

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One of the criticisms of scientific management is it did not acknowledge variance among individuals.

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Standardization of work and wage incentives are characteristics of behavioral science.

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With clear definitions of authority and responsibility, division of labor is one of the six characteristics of the ideal bureaucracy.

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Administrative acts and decisions recorded in writing is one of the six characteristics of the ideal bureaucracy.

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Fayol's unity of command principle emphasizes that each subordinate receives orders from one-and only one-superior.

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The unity of direction principle proposes that similar activities in an organization should be grouped together under one manager.

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The scalar chain is a hypothetical chain that provides horizontal links between unionized workers in different departments in an organization.

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Scientific management focuses on employee competence, whereas the administrative principles approach focuses on work flow through the organization.

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Follett and Barnard were early advocates of a more humanistic perspective on management that emphasized the importance of understanding human behaviors, needs, and attitudes in the workplace, as well as social interactions and group processes.

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Mary Parker Follett's approach to leadership stressed the importance of engineering techniques rather than people.

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A social group within an organization is part of the informal organization.

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