Org. & Management Concepts

It refers to the systematic study of relationships between people and tasks for the purpose of redesigning the work process to increase efficiency.

• Management Science

• Scientific Management

• Managing Science

• Management

What is Scientific Management?

• a tool that provides a graphic representation of what occurs over the course of a project.

• refers to the study of how to create an organizational structure and control system that leads to high efficiency and effectiveness.

• the term used to describe the works produced by the earliest theorists and researchers in management

• an economic system where industry is privately controlled and operated for profit.

Gantt differentiated between terminal elements that must be completed as part of a larger task. The related terminal elements together created what he called the ______.

It focuses on analyzing an organization’s input, conversion, and output activities to increase product quality.

• Total Quality Management (TQM)

• Management Information Systems (MIS)

• Quantitative Management

• Operations Management

·         It help managers design information systems that provide information about events occurring inside the organization as well as in its external environment- information that is vital for effective decision making.

• Operations management

• Quantitative management

• Management information systems

• Total quality management

A characteristic of Bureaucracy which tasks are clearly defined and employees become skilled by specializing in doing one thing. There is clear definition of authority and responsibility.

• Hierarchical Management Structure

• Division of Labor

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  Formal Selection Process

• Impersonality

______   utilizes mathematical techniques – such as linear and nonlinear programming, modelling, simulation, queuing theory, and chaos theory – to help managers decide, for example, how much inventory to hold at different times of the year, where to locate a new factory, and how best to invest an organization’s financial capital.

According to McGregor's theory, people do not like work and try to avoid it.

• Theory Y

• Theory Z

• Theory X

• Theory A.m

It is an economic system where industry is privately controlled and operated for profit.

• Bureaucracy

• Industrial Capitalism

• Terminal Elements

• Scientific Management

A tool that provides a graphic representation of what occurs over the course of a project.

• Chart

• Gantt Chart

• Jazz Chant

• Pie Chart