GMGT 1010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: General Management
• Course: GMGT 1010
• Professor: Farhan Islam

Document Summary

A short history of management theory and practice: And the call for an alternative approach to management1. Overview: this reading describes some of the key formative ideas and people that have helped to develop the management theory and practice that we take for granted today. First, we travel back in time several centuries to understand where the conventional emphasis on materialism and individualism in management came from. Then we identify a century of pioneers who studied and developed four main functions of management (organizing, leading, planning and controlling). Finally, we look at the growing literature calling for and describing the need for alternative approaches to management, and describe what one such alternative approach looks like. 2. Interpersonal aspects of management leader as facilitator (follet) job stress (l. gilbreth) (cid:498)(awthorne effect(cid:499)/sfp (mayo & & luckman) institutionalization (selznick, zucker) organizational culture (schein) Management science; operations research/mgmt; strategic mgmt mechanistic vs organic structures (burns & stalker) contingency theory and strategic choice (child)