Carla Mendoza
Business 1050
10/22/15
Assignment 16
"Methods of Influence and Control" Douglas McGregor
Vocabulary
1. Accommodation- adjusting
2. Derived- coming from something
3. Ethnocentrism- the belief that a social or cultural group is superior.
4. Featherbedding- overstaffing and or limiting production
5. Interdependence- depending on each other
6. Hierarchal- somebody of a very high rank
7. Lateral- at the side
8. Milieu- the surrounding
9. Unilateral- decided by a single party
10. Vehement- having conviction
Standard six questions
1. The author of “Methods of Influence and Control” was Douglas McGregor. McGregor was a management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He wrote the book The Human Side of Enterprise.
2. This
…show more content…
This text was supposedly written in the US and idea going on at the time was that the US appeals court ruled the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" not obscene.
5. This text is relevant to the study of modern business in that it teaches us what business look at to influence or control employees and other aspects of the business.
6. I liked this text and I feel like I really understood what he was trying to say.
Study questions
1. Early management literature derives from both the military and the Catholic Church due to the fact that both of these were the biggest models of organizations at the time.
2. Ethnocentrism is the belief that a racial or social group is superior to another. This affects the classical organization theory (ignoring the significance of the political social and economic milieu) diminishing the effect.
3. Classical organization theory is suspect because it makes assumptions that the managerial control is a central and indispensable mean of control.
4. Social influence of control is what authority is
5. Persuasion is swaying someone to do something by giving them an incentive. Authority on the other hand is forcing someone to do something because if not they will either be punished or lose a job and its