Business Management

    April 21, 2024

 
Module1 
First file: 
1.  What are the five basic operations of a manager?
2.  What are the three layers of management?
3.  A compelling leader spends a lot of time with their team members. Being engaged with employees allows THIS TYPE OF manager to lead by example, and to gain buy-in and compliance from the team by persuading rather than instructing or demanding
File 2: Questions on Articles within this Module:
1)  Critics of this management perspective claimed that workers were not allowed to express any individuality in their work. Critics also claimed that this approach gave greater power to management and reduced workers to automatons.
2) This Welsh social reformer and a proponent of human resource management. According to him, investing in human resource is better than investing in other assets. He advocated that employees should be working because they are interested in it rather than being forced. He also propounded that there should be a harmonious relationship between managers and employees in order to improve the efficacy of production.
3) This is a discipline that lays emphasis on improving the effectiveness of management decisions by using advanced analytical techniques. It is sometimes considered to be a subfield of mathematics as it involves extensive calculations. Some of the commonly used operations research techniques are linear programming, querying, waiting line, routing and distribution models, etc.
4) The history of management can be traced back to ______ B.C. when the agriculture revolution was at the initial stage. In Egypt, in _____ B.C., the pyramids were built in a highly organized and coordinated manner. These pyramids have become a classic example of management.
5) Douglas McGregor in his book, “human side of enterprises” published in 1960 argued that there are two types of individual in the organization, respectively __  and __ type. Theory __ managers have a negative view of workers and perceived them as untrustworthy, lazy, and lacking the initiative to take responsibility. 
6) Effectiveness is contingent as it depends on the interplay between managerial applications and behaviors and particular situation according to WHAT THEORY?
7) She is regarded as the “Mother of Modern Management” because of her contribution to the management field
8) This Theorist decided that, since management theory seemed to offer so little, it might be worth looking at what managers actually do? Drawing on material by Rosemary Stewart (1967) and others, this theorist (1975) proposed a different model of managerial work. He found that managers hardly ever had time to do any of the things they were supposed to do and he suggested that in reality they have three main areas of work — interpersonal,  informational and decisional — within which they have ten key roles.  Who is this theorist?
File 3:
Youtube video link: 
1)  What are the sparks of the industrial revolution?
2) What are characteristics of a ‘bureaucracy”?
3) Does classical management theory apply to modern organizations?

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