MAN 3025 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mercosur, E-Commerce, Theory X And Theory Y

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Management
• Course: MAN 3025
• Professor: Lindy Archambeau

Document Summary

Don"t need to k now: just a r eference. Manager identity: specialist, performs specific tasks, gets things done through own efforts, an individual actor, works relatively independently, generalist, coordinates diverse tasks, gets things done through others, a network builder, works in highly interdependent manner. Five practical reasons for studying this chapter: understanding of the present, guide to action, source of new ideas, clues to meaning of your manager"s decisions, clues to meaning of outside events (6th in book: producing positive results) **as the environment changes, so does the need for ever evolving management practices** Classical viewpoint: emerged during the 19th and early 20th centuries, rise of the factory system, agricultural industrial. Issues regarding structure, training, and employee satisfaction: large, complex organizations required new approaches to coordination and control, two subfields: scientific management and administrative management. Scientific management: pioneered by taylor and the gilbreths; emphasized scientific study of work methods to improve productivity of individual workers.