Evolution of Management

• What truly measures the value of a business leader and manager?

  performance
• What is the date wherein the Chinese practice of the four managerial functions ?

  1100 BC
• Who are the first set of people to practice the four managerial functions?

  chinese
• What is the date wherein there’s a development of a scientific approach to work by the Greeks?

  400-350 BC
• What is the date wherein the Romans practice management decentralization?

  400-350 BC
• What nationality developed the scientific approach of management?

  Greeks
• Who improved the production by standardizing assembly lines, using an inventory system, and building warehouses?

  Venetians
• What period did inventory system and warehouses arises?

  medieval period
• What period did economies of scale occur?

  1780-1840
• What reduces the manufacturing cause during the industrial revolution?

  economies of scale
• Wha are the two notable business schools?

  Wharton school and Amos Truck School
• When did business school flourished?

  Early 20th century
• What time period did US companies engage in manufacturing around the world?

  20th century or present
• What are the different theories of management?

  Scientific Management theory, Administrative management theory, Human relations theory, quantitative management theory, systems theory, contingency theory, contemporary systems theory, quality management theory
• What are the fourteen principles of management?

  Division of work, Authority, Discipline, Unity of command, Unity of direction, Predominance of the general interest, Remuneration, Centralization, Scalar chain, Order, Equity, Stability of tenure of personnel, Initiative, Esprit de corps
• What theory studies the application of scientific methods and principle for the purpose of redesigning the work process to increase efficienc?

  scientific management theory
• Who are the advocates of the scientific management theory?

  Frederick W. Taylor, Henry Ford, Frank and Lillian Gilbert
• Who introduced the 4 principle of scientific management?

  Frederick W. Taylor
• Who is known as the “Father of Scientific Management“?

  Frederick Taylor
• Who is responsible for the improvement of assembly line?

  Henry Ford
• Who establish the Ford Motor Company?

  Henry Ford
• Who are behind the development of the time and motion within a management?

  Frank and Lillian Gilbert
• Job is divided into component parts and the time consumed in performing each task is measured. This statement is according to?

  Frank and Lillian Gilbert
• What is the theory that focuses on the overall management of an organization?

  administrative management theory
• What theory emphasizes the role of managers as administrators of the organization?

  administrative management theory
• Who identified the 5 functions of a manager, 14 principles of management, and the administrative management theory?

  Henry Fayol
• Who contributed with the development of administrative management through his studies on public administration and bureaucracy?

  Max Weber
• What are the studies of Max Weber that made him a contributor of the Administrative management theory?

  public administration and bureaucracy
• Who wrote “The Functions of the Executive“?

  Chester Barnard
• What is the literature that highlights the major functions of the senior executive?

  “The Functions of the Executive”
• What are the major function of a senior executive?

  To formulate the organization‘s mission, to hire key employees, to maintain organizational communication
• Who wrote the “Dynamic Organization”?

  Mary Parker Follet
• What literature emphasizes the ever-changing situations that managers have to deal with?

  Dynamic Organization
• What management theory focuses on the social element in the workplace and considers the influence of relationship between members in determining the performance of workers?

  Human Relations Theory
• Who introduced the concepts of set number of work, break times for workers, supervision, and improvements of facilities?

  Elton Mayo
• who argued that individual behavior is primarily influenced by certain needs?

  Abraham Maslow
• What are the needs in the hierarchy of needs? From bottom to top

  Physiological, safety, love/belonging, self esteem, self-actualization
• What theory uses numbers such as statistical analyses and computer simulations to make decisions?

  quantitative management theory
• What are the two main branches of quantitative management?

  management science and operation management
• what is the most sub field of quantitative management?

  management information system