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Chapter 1

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Putting the Science in Management Science?

  1. Identify Decentralization vs. Centralization
  2. Explain what it means to let technology get out of the way.
  3. What is meant by imposing and emerging?

Henry Mintzberg on Managing - Pure and Simple

  1. What does Mintzberg mean by management as more of an art than science?
  2. Explain what the dynamics of management are.
  3. What does it mean to Managing Over The Edge?

Ford and Taylor Scientific Management (Edited)

  1. How did Frederick Winslow Taylor and Ford help to solve worker problems?
  2. What world records were broken under the supervision of Frederick Taylor?
  3. Identify how Ford in 1913 introduced the assembly line.

Hawthorne Effect

  1. How was the Modern Industrial Revolution started?
  2. What is the difference between the autocratic versus democratic management?
  3. Why was the Hawthorne plant on the cutting edge in 1924 with an illumination experiment?