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Answer all of the questions completely. Use your book, other relevant business publications/websites, current events, and also your own experiences to fully answer the review questions. Please make sure you cite any outside business and/or psychology related publications or websites. Also, provide examples to enhance your answers to increase likelihood for maximum points. You must write a sufficient amount to get full credit and any answer deemed too short will not receive any credit. Do not copy directly out of the book or plagiarize any work from any source!
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1. Describe how the need to increase organizational efficiency guided the evolution of management theory.
2. What is meant by scientific management? What are the four principles of scientific management described by Frederick W. Taylor?
3. Explain how scientific management caused dissatisfaction in workers.
4. Define administrative management and briefly discuss the principles developed by Max Weber.
5. Discuss Fayol's principles of management.
6. What are the disadvantages of centralization of authority?
7. Define management science theory. What are the different branches of management science?
8. Differentiate between an open and a closed system.
9. Briefly describe the different types of organizational structures that Burns and Stalker proposed.
10. Briefly describe the different stages of an open system.
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