Online Chapter: MGMT Practices Vocab

Question 1

Emphasizes careful selection and training of workers and supervisory support

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Scientific management

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The science of reducing a job or task to its basic physical motions

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Motion study

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A rational and efficient form of organization founded on logic, order and legitimate authority

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Bureaucracy

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States that organizations should operate with clear and unbroken lines of communication top to bottom

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Scalar chain principle

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States that a worker should receive orders from only one boss

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Unity of command principle

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The tendency of persons singles out for special attention to perform as expected

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Hawthorne effect

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A physiological or psychological deficiency that a person wants to satisfy

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Need

Question 8

Which principle of Maslow’s said that a need at any level becomes activated only after the next-lower-level need is satisfied

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Progression principle

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Which principle of Maslow’s said that people act to satisfy needs for which a satisfaction deficit exists; a satisfied need doesn’t motivate behavior

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Deficit principle

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Assumes people dislike work, lack ambition, are irresponsible, and prefer to be led.

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Theory X

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Assumes people are willing to work, accept responsibility, are self-directed, and are creative

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Theory Y

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Occurs when a person acts in ways that confirm another’s expectations

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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The systematic use and analysis of data to solve problems and make informed decisions

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Analytics

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Apply mathematical techniques to solve management problems

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Management science and operations research

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Is the study of how organizations produce goods and services

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Operations management

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Transforms resource inputs from the environment into product outputs

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Open systems

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A smaller component of a larger system

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Subsystem

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Tries to match management practices with situational demands

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Contingency thinking

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Managing with an organization wide commitment to continuous improvement, product quality, and customer needs

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Total quality management

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Involves searching for new ways to improve work quality and performance

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Continuous improvement

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Involves making decisions based on hard facts about what really works

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Evidence-based management