NICET Soils level 1 questions with correct answers Latest version.
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What is the purpose of To get the right work done well
management?
Identify the "Right Work" to be done by the manager, and
What is the right work done
well? understand the way in which managers get the work "Done
Well".
Understand WHAT a manager must accomplish
Includes: Developing vision/mission statements, setting goals,
How to identify the "Right strategies, plans Doing whats right (legality,
Work"? ethics,values,social responsibility)
Managing a global
business Profitability
and growth
Allocate responsibilities to the other members of the organization, like
designing job, organizational structure, work flows, creating a culture
How to identify "Done Well"? Human resources
management Employee
management
Performance
management
What are the four facets that Economic, social, political, and technological
influence business practices?
What are the two Historian
controversies with looking at bias Data
management history? limitation
You can observe the drivers/pace of change, look at how
management practices changed over time
What are the values of
See if practices universal or variable
studying management
across organizations See if facets/practices
history?
dependent or independent
See what is the focus of management practices and if that focus is changing
, Study stages or time
periods Study schools
How to study management history?
of thought Study
organizations
Study biographies
Specialization of labor
Systematic
Categories of management management
practices?
Scientific
management
Administrative
management
Human relations management
Adam Smith identified the concept of having a person focus on a
single component of the overall production of goods.
Specialization of labor
Various individuals would specialize in
each types of tasks Developed into
systematic management
In the early days of the industrial revolution, engineers and
economists had major roles in the management of factories.
Systematic management Engineers focused on running the machines, and economists
focused on the economic aspects of the factories
Now, engineering and economist work is more
specialized, such as specific engineers and different types
of business work such as accountants and HR.
Frederick Taylor analyzed workers to find opportunities to
redesign tasks to make them more efficient. Analyzed the
time it took for one step for bricklaying and how people
interacted with the machines
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the 1900s advanced his work
and studied time and motion. Reduced the amount of motions
Scientific management
necessary with different methods of laying bricks
Henry Gantt in the mid 1900s looked for a way to illustrate
how work flows through an organization. Made it more clear
for how a business can be more efficient Joseph Juran helped
with statistical quality control and advanced statistical methods
to production planning and process control.
Taiichi Ohno developed the Just in Time concept of inventory
planning, where parts are delivered at the time they are