Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Study Guide - List Of Muppets, Mcdonaldization

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Dart

Document Summary

Traditional management course is centered around planning, leading, organizing and controlling: controlling is management or what it was supposed to be until the mid-20th century. Fitting the real world into the 21st century. Critical perspectives question everything: 1% & 99, crookedness and corruption. Issues in business, management & organization": what are they and why. Management consists of: planning, organizing, leading, controlling, or a number of different ways to approach. The pig: owners vs. consumers vs. managers vs. suppliers, etc, things that are important to use aren"t important to others. 20th century of business the efficiency project": making business, management and enterprise more efficient, lean, planning, organizing, leading and controlling and how they work, mcdonaldization, globalization. Strengths and limitations of 20th century management: what did it do well, do poorly or not do at all, biases. Where business connects with society: mintzberg, monbiot. What new and innovative responses are emerging to help: opportunities vs. problems.