Chapter 2: History and Current thinking

The____ to management was the product of the first concentrated effort to

develop a body of management thought

the classical approach to management can be broken down into

two distinct areas.

The comprehensive view of classical aproach to management are concerned with the entire range of managerial performance.

The behavioral approach to management emphasizes ___ through an

understanding of people.

The management science approach suggests that managers can best improve their organizations by using the ___ to solve operational problems.

The contingency approach to management emphasizes that what managers

do in practice depends on, or is contingent upon, a given set of ____

Which management approach is based on the premise that, although there probably is no one best way to solve a management problem in all organizations there probably is one best way to solve any given management problem in any one organization

The system approach to management is based on _____

The main premise of ____ theory is that, to understand the operation

of an entity fully, the entity must be viewed as a system

A learning organization is an organization that does well in creating, acquiring, and transferring ____ and in____ its behavior to reflect new

knowledge.