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D2AR0N · **on:** Jul 6, 2018

When Detroit's Big Three continued their investment in SUVs in the early 2000s, they experienced which of the following pitfalls of planning?

A) Extensive bureaucratization
B) Plans imposed from above
C) Inflexible adherence to objectives and processes
D) Planning as a self-contained activity

Question 2

What is the systems approach to management and how does it differ from the operational, bureaucratic, administrative, and behavioral approaches to management?

What will be an ideal response?

diana chang · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 6, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

The operational, bureaucratic, administrative, and behavioral approaches studied management by dividing it into elements or components. While taking things apart is useful for analytical purposes, in reality all relevant parts of organizational activity interact with each other. Reductionism in management thought may lead to simplistic prescriptions and may not help us understand why some firms perform at higher levels than others. System theorists believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.