Classical Perspective

The year is $1910,$ and you have been invited to visit the manufacturing facility of Skyway Luggage. The owrer of the company, A$.$J$.$ Kotkins, wants your perspective on how to make his employees more efficient and productive at their work. He has also invited several other management experts, who are considered to be the leading thinkers of the day. These management scholars want to discuss whether A$.$J$.$ will benefit from using scientific management, bureaucratic management, or administrative principles in his factory. As you all sit in the Skyway conference room, a lively conversation breaks out.

Which of the following management theorists is most likely to have been at the meeting?

Elton Mayo

Douglas McGregor

Henri Fayol

Abraham Maslow

Which of the management theorists attending the meeting developed the idea that there are five functions of management: planning, organizing. commanding, coordinating, and controlling?

Henry Gantt

Mary Parker Follett

Chester Barnard

Henri Fayol