Modern management theorists recognize that multiple management approaches are available and that not every approach can be used for every situation. At the same time, they realize there are commonalities in situations and that companies in similar situations will benefit from similar management practices. For example, in is book Theory of Leader Effectiveness, psychologist Fred Fiedler proposed that leaders use different styles in different situations to be effective. When situations were highly positive or highly negative, a task-oriented approach was best. On the other hand, when situations were somewhere in the middle, a relationship-oriented approach was best. Fiedler's theory and others like it are called contingency theories, and they imply that the most effective management technique.
Read the following and then answer the questions that follow.
Management in Work
In November 1936, Professors Charles L. Jamison of the University of Michigan and William N. Mitchell of the University of Chicago sent letters to teachers of management courses inviting them to a meeting at the Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago, to discuss the formation of an organization of educators to advance the philosophy of management. The professors attending the meeting on December 28, 1936, agreed that the new organization should be called the Academy of Management. Future annual meetings were to be used for exploring the organization's purpose and presenting and discussing scholarly papers
Since its beginning in 1936, the Academy has evolved from an organization of 10 members to an organization of more than 17,500 members from more than 105 nations.
Imagine you are a member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and on the steering committee to choose a location for the organization's annual meeting. When making the recommendation, you will explain which management theory was used to make that choice.
If your recommendation is based on analyzing a variety of circumstances because no single management theory applies to all situations, you are applying which approach to management?
A. Systems management.
B. Operations management.
C. Contingency management.
D. Information management.
The steering committee decides that the location of the next AOM annual meeting should consider the competitive, economic, social, and technological factors affected by the committee's decision. In other words, it is using which approach?
A. Systems management.
B. Operations management.
C. Contingency management.
D. Information management.