Table of Contents SUMMARY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) 2 IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY IN MANAGEMENT 3 THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 4 JOHN AKERS WAS A PRACTITIONER OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 5 HOW BUREAUCRACY IN IBM RESULTED TO INEFFICIENCY 7 HENRI FAYOL’S PHILOSOPHY 10 THE MAIN LEADERSHIP PROBLEMS IN IBM 13 OTHER MANAGEMENT ISSUES/LESSONS IN THE CASE 15 SIMILAR CASE – UCHUMI SUPERMARKET 16 SUMMARY OF INTERNATIONAL
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4. Question : Why are small businesses dominated by the strategic apex? Student Answer: Smaller staffs report directly to management. They are more formal and complex. Authority is decentralized. They necessitate a machine bureaucracy. 5. Question : A manager’s span of control refers to Student Answer: how many subordinates she oversees what departments she supervises what expertise she brings to her position how long she has held her current position
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY ACADEMIC INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY VOLUME 14‚ NUMBER 1‚ 201 2 1 Mechanistic - Organic Organizations — A n Axiomatic Theory: Authority Based on Bureaucracy or Professional Norms Fred C. Lunenburg Sam Houston State University ABSTRACT M echanistic and organic organizations are opposite ends of a continuum of organizational structure possibilities. Mechanistic organizations are efficient‚ rigid‚ predictable‚ and standardized organizations. Specifically
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collaboration and innovation” but his view can be also challenged as a mere ‘’utopian idea of post-bureaucratic precedents which comes into focus as potentially a set of prejudice and incompetence” (Grey‚ 2005‚ p. 86) as a result of a war against bureaucracy which can be considered to be “the death of all sound work” (Einstein‚ 1921). Facebook presents ‘environment as a culture.’ What they probably mean by this is that internal environment‚ from Facebook’s point of view‚ is everything that surrounds
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French.dutch Spanish.The modern administrative systems in third world countries are relatively unharmonious with their economic‚ political and cultural context. As far as the economic context is concerned‚ we can say that the elite structure and bureaucracies have been inconsistent with the third world’s economic needs to develop private capital and entrepreneurship‚ achieve economic success and resolve poverty and inequality. For political context there has been inconsistency between the bureaucratic
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TIME: 8:00/11:00 PROFESSOR: MR. CATLI ROBERTO TOPIC: Reaction on “Is there a Philippine Public Administration? R E A C T I O N P A P E R Of course there is a Philippine public administration considering the massive role of the bureaucracy in Public Administration. There is Philippine public administration because there is governance ever since. There is a Philippine public administration when we consider its major areas. But the quality of public administration in our country
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organization to perform its functions (Mencer‚ 2002). Bureaucracy is an organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently (Society‚ 2006). This is exactly what man did from assigning tribal leaders and allotting specific task to members of the tribal to be completed in order for the tribal unit it run efficiently and be effective. This method had been found very effective and put into place century after century. With the bureaucracy organization working so well there was little need
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Organizational structure An organizational structure consists of activities such as task allocation‚ coordination and supervision‚ which are directed towards the achievement of organizational aims.[1] It can also be considered as the viewing glass or perspective through which individuals see their organization and its environment. Organizations are a variant of clustered entities. An organization can be structured in many different ways‚ depending on their objectives. The structure of an
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1. How do primary groups differ from secondary groups? Give examples of each in your own life. Primary group is a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships. Family Relationships in our family represent personal and emotional bonds. We spend a significant amount of time together‚ allowing each member to support‚ comfort and encourage one another. Close Friends Spending a lot of time experiencing different adventures with my close friends‚ chatting about personal
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appointed government official with certain duties and responsibilities defined by disposition in the bureaucracy. A bureaucrat is more dependent on the government than an aristocrat because official power comes from official appointment through the bureaucracy (Class Lecture‚ Oct. 16‚ 97). Bureaucracy first replaced aristocracy in the Tang dynasty‚ under the rule of Empress Wu (625?-706?‚ r.690-706) bureaucracy was expanded by furthering expansion policies and supporting the examination system. Positions
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