MGT 3200 Chapter : INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
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Page 2 of 5: northcote parkinson: injellitance = incompetent and jealousy. Refine and reform theories scientifically: art: comes naturally to some people. Artful in practice: equafinality: many roads to success: why many different leadership styles can be successful. Why is still significant today: the industrial revolution: forever changing how work was performed. Created specialists: the economic effects leading to the need. For professional management: specialists needed to be able to coordinate with each other. Skills of the craftsmen is transferred to the machine: skill level of craftsmen goes down. Productivity increases, prices drop, demand increases, factories and companies expand, owner could no longer be the only manager. Professional managers were hired to meet mass demand. Page 4 of 5: survivor"s syndrome: survivors feel lucky then guilty. Starts to build anxiety that it will happen again: decreases focus and makes you more mistake/accident prone.
