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Chapter 2
- Describe how the need to increase organizational efficiency guided the evolution of management theory.
- What is meant by scientific management? What are the four principles of scientific management described by Frederick W. Taylor?
- Explain how scientific management caused dissatisfaction in workers.
- Define administrative management and briefly discuss the principles developed by Max Weber.
- Discuss Fayol's principles of management.
- What are the disadvantages of centralization of authority?
- Define management science theory. What are the different branches of management science?
- Differentiate between an open and a closed system.
- Briefly describe the different types of organizational structures that Burns and Stalker proposed.
- Briefly describe the different stages of an open system.