GMS 200 Chapter : GMS Ch2

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9 Feb 2012

School

Ryerson University

Department

Global Management Studies

Course

GMS 200

Professor

Shavin Malhotra

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There are three approaches to management, scientific management, administrative principles and bureaucratic organization. The three approaches share a common assumption: people in the workplace act rationally by being motivated by economic concerns. Taylor s goal was to improve the productivity of the workforce thus he created the scientific management approach which includes four principals. For every job there are sets of actions that must be carried out, standard work implements and proper working conditions. Handpick employees who have the abilities to perform the job. Train these employees to be able to complete the job and give them incentives to follow the set procedures and etc. Help workers by carefully planning their work and smoothing the way as they go through their jobs. Motion study is the science responsible for reducing the amount of work that has to be done by reducing a task to its simple physical motions. 2. 1 management smarts practical lessons from scientific management.

Related Questions

According to the principles of scientific management, the best way to improve productivity is to:

a) establish open two-way communications among all of the organization's employees and managers.

b) use time-motion studies to find the best method of doing each job, then teach those methods to employees.

c) use job rotation and job enlargement to make work more interesting and challenging.

d) give employees greater recognition for their efforts.

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A central characteristic of "management by objectives" is that:

A goals are set by top management and followed without question by others within the organization.

B. employees are given complete freedom to set their own goals as long as they are consistent with broad guidelines established by top management.

C. goals are set through a process involving all members of the organization.

D. it assumes that management must motivate employees since employees are incapable of motivating themselves.