MAN 3025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Parker Follett, Elton Mayo, Facility Location Problem
31 Jan 2018
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Social forces influence of culture that guides people and relationships. Political forces influence of political and legal institutions. Economic forces the availability, production, and distribution of resources. *as the environment changes, so does the need for evolving management practices. Theory is a conceptual framework for organizing and providing a blueprint for action. Translate principles learned from these tests into organizational process/procedures. Two overarching perspectives about management observe events and gather fact pose a possible solution or explanation based on those facts make a prediction based on those facts test the predictions under systematic conditions: historical perspective, classical viewpoint. Large, complex organizations required new approaches to coordination and control. Two subfields: scientific management and administrative management: administrative management max weber, rationality of bureaucracy: a well-defined hierarchy of authority, formal rules and procedures, a clear division of labor, impersonality, careers based on merit, behavioral viewpoint.
