Exam 10: The Emergence of Management and Organization Theory

Bureaucracy was conceived by Weber as a blueprint for efficiency that would emphasize rules rather than people and competence rather than favoritism.

Organizing, according to Fayol, included provisions for the structuring of activities and relationships, as well as for staffing an enterprise.

For Weber, bureaucracy was management by the "office" or position rather than by the person.

Weber's type(s) of authority was (were):

Henri Fayol felt that a leader who is a good administrator but technically mediocre was more useful to the enterprise than a good technical person with poor administrative skills.

Of the types of authority discussed by Weber, the traditional type provided the best basis for a bureaucracy.

What did Fayol do that would be considered "strategic"?

According to Fayol, organizational success depended more on

According to Fayol, an organization's structure must be so arranged that it provided unity of direction toward an enterprise's objectives.

Henri Fayol's principles were intended as guides to theory and practice and were not exhaustive in scope or to be interpreted as rigid in application.

Henri Fayol's notion of centralization was that all decisions had to be made at the top by an enterprise's CEO.

What were the contributions of Max Weber, and why were they important to the evolution of management thought? Compare Weber's "ideal" in terms of a modern university and a firm manufacturing computers. How would they be different? Any similarities?

Fayol, like Taylor, started at the bottom and worked his way up into management.

Which of the elements that Fayol proposed meant "to harmonize all activities of a concern so as to facilitate its working, and its success."

Max Weber's conceptualization of bureaucracy merits substantial consideration for naming him the founder of:

For Weber, bureaucracy was management by:

Which of the following is not one of Max Weber's types of authority?

Of the various types of authority, Weber said that_______must provide the basis for a bureaucracy.

Compare and contrast Fayol's background and ideas with those of Taylor. How were they similar? Different? How did this shape their view of management?

Authority, as one of Fayol's principles, is divided into two types: what are they?