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contingency variables
Organisations are individually different, face different situations (________), and require different ways of managing.
Experimental findings
________: productivity increased under imposed adverse working conditions.
Situational approach
________: "no one universally applicable set of management rules by which to manage organisations.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
________: father of scientific management.
Social norms
________, group standards, and attitudes influence individual output and work behaviour more strongly than monetary incentives.
Administrative management theory
________ primarily focuses on improving the efficiency of management so that lower- level employees can recognize appropriately and the tasks can be done consistently.
Workforce diversity
________: increasing heterogeneity in the workforce.
Entrepreneurship
________: process of starting new businesses, generally in response to opportunities.
research strategy
Is a(n) ________ that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data.
Philosophy of management
________ driven by continual improvement in the quality of work processes + responding to customer needs and expectations.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
father of scientific management
Systems
set of interrelated and interdependent parts arranged in a manner that provides a unified whole
Closed systems
are not influenced by and do not interact with their environment (all system input/output is internal)
Open systems
dynamically interact to their environments by taking in inputs and transforming them into outputs that are distributed into their environments
"Situational approach"
no one universally applicable set of management rules by which to manage organisations
Workforce diversity
increasing heterogeneity in the workforce
Entrepreneurship
process of starting new businesses, generally in response to opportunities
E-business
electronic business
E-business enhanced organisation
e-business units within traditional organisations
E-business enabled organisation
e-business tools and applications used within traditional organisation
Total E-business organisation
organisations entire work processes revolve around e-business model
Learning organisations
organisation that has been developed the capacity to continuously learn+adapt, and change
Knowledge organisations
cultivation of a learning culture where organisation members gather and share knowledge to achieve better performance
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