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Who is the originator of scientific management?
Who is the originator of scientific management?
- Frederick W. Taylor (correct)
- Frederick W. Taylor and Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
- Someone else
What is the main focus of systems theory?
What is the main focus of systems theory?
- Explaining how to manage a business
- Explaining how enterprise systems work (correct)
- Explaining how scientific theories are developed
- Explaining how to change patterns of thought
Who said, 'Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.'?
Who said, 'Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.'?
- Someone else
- Frederick W. Taylor
- Ackoff (correct)
- Albert Einstein
What does this chapter attempt to do?
What does this chapter attempt to do?
What does systems theory provide?
What does systems theory provide?
True or false: Systems theory has influenced scientific, engineering, management, and other fields of inquiry.
True or false: Systems theory has influenced scientific, engineering, management, and other fields of inquiry.
True or false: Systems theory is used in this book to explain how enterprise systems work.
True or false: Systems theory is used in this book to explain how enterprise systems work.
True or false: This chapter explains in greater depth what it means to say an enterprise is a system.
True or false: This chapter explains in greater depth what it means to say an enterprise is a system.
True or false: Systems dynamics is described in this chapter.
True or false: Systems dynamics is described in this chapter.
True or false: Traditional reductionist thinking is contrasted with systems thinking in this chapter.
True or false: Traditional reductionist thinking is contrasted with systems thinking in this chapter.
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