ADMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gigantism, Idolatry, Case Method

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Paulette Burgher

Document Summary

Critical thinking: to question, analyze, or make sense of something. Name strategies used to make judgements: curious: Lots of uncertainty/noise in the business world. Experts usually step in to fill the void but they"re often wrong and they disagree. Need to develop procedures to assess truth or validity of different ideas. But also . government, not-for profits, disasters and emergencies. 1st b. school established around turn of century (1900s) Originally it was to develop a similar professional degree to law & medicine. Now, it is to manage corporations in the interest of a variety of stakeholder-- Standardized body of knowledge: rapid growth of b. school after ww1 since returning soldiers needed jobs & the public policy goal was to have no unemployment. Practitioner focus: purpose is to educate business managers. 2 main teaching methods: traditional skills-bases, lecture style, case-method. Wrote detailed account of what they did.