Compare the tasks, priorities, and responsibilities of first-line, middle, and top managers. Discuss the difference between efficiency
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- Compare the tasks, priorities, and responsibilities of first-line, middle, and top managers.
- Discuss the difference between efficiency and effectiveness.
- Explain through examples how a process can be (a) efficient but not effective and (b) effective but not efficient.
- List and explain the four basic functions of management.
- Describe the four main types of managerial skills identified by Robert Katz.
- Briefly discuss the importance of studying management.
- Explain why customer satisfaction is becoming increasingly important in today's business world.
- Explain why innovation is becoming increasingly important in today's business world.
- Discuss the impact that the Industrial Revolution had on management.
- Discuss the impact that the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations had on management.
- Discuss scientific management.
- Discuss the work of Henri Fayol and Max Weber as it relates to the general administrative approach to management.
- Describe how the work of Abraham Maslow influenced management.
- Identify the principles of management identified by Henri Fayol that are most important for establishing a manager's control over employees.
- Identify the principles of management identified by Henri Fayol that are most important for the satisfaction and welfare of employees.
- Identify the principles of management identified by Henri Fayol that are most important for efficiency and productivity of the entire organization.
- Describe the Hawthorne studies and how they were interpreted.
- Explain how the systems approach contributes to the understanding of management.
- Describe the contingency approach to management.
- Describe how the contingency variable of organization size might affect management style.
- Describe how the contingency variable of routineness of task might affect management style.
- Describe how the contingency variable of environmental uncertainty might affect management style.
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Quantitative Analysis for Management
ISBN: 978-0132149112
11th Edition
Authors: Barry render, Ralph m. stair, Michael e. Hanna
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