Chapter 2

Question 1

Fedrick Taylor

Answer 1

One Best Way

Analyze every little thing

Management needs to analyze work process, make rules, find efficient ways to perform tasks

Question 2

Max Weber

Answer 2

Founder of Organizational sociology

Rational-Legal Justifications for authority

No birthright

qualified career officials, a structured hierarchy, and a clear, rule-based specifications of duties made for precision, speed, clarity and consistency

Question 3

Administrative Management

Answer 3

Develop principles of administration to guide mangers in such functions as planning, organizing, supervising, controlling, and delegating authority

Major Contributors

Luther Gulick (1937)

James Mooney (1930)

Question 4

Luther Gulick

Answer 4

Notes on a Theory of Organization

2 fundamental functions

• division of work
  
  • speciliation
  • matching skills to taks
• coordination of work
  
  • narrow span of contorl
  • one master
  • technical efficiency throuh homogeneity
    
    • dislimilar wasks soud not be grouped together

Question 5

POSDCORB

Answer 5

Planning

Organizing

Staffing

Directing

Coordinating

Reporting

Budgeting

Question 6

James Mooney

Answer 6

The Scalar Principle

Orgnaizatoin must be like as cale, a graded series of steps, in levels of authority adn corresponding responsiblies

“supreme coordianting authroity” projects through a scalare chain to coordinat the entier structure

Delegation

Question 7

Mary Parker Follett

Answer 7

The Giving of Orders

proposed a cooperative , particiapteve process for giving orders where superiors and and subordinates develp a shred understanding of the particular situation and what is required