Match List - I with List - II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below :List - I
(Name of Study) List - II
(Name) A. Time and motion study I. Koontz and Donnell B. Hawtdorne experiments II. Elton Mayo C. Universalist approach III. F.W. Taylor D. Bureaucracy IV. Max Weber
A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
The correct matching is A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV — option 2.
| Study | Associated with | What it established |
|---|---|---|
| A. Time and motion study | III. F. W. Taylor | The father of scientific management. Time study, developed with Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s motion study, sought the one best way to perform each task — through work measurement, standardisation of tools and methods, scientific selection and training, and differential piece-rate wages |
| B. Hawthorne experiments | II. Elton Mayo | Conducted at the Western Electric works at Hawthorne, 1924–32. Intended to relate illumination and other physical conditions to output, they found instead that social and psychological factors dominated — group norms, attention from supervisors, informal organisation. The human relations movement dates from them, as does the term Hawthorne effect |
| C. Universalist approach | I. Koontz and O’Donnell | The view that management is a universal process whose functions — planning, organising, staffing, directing, controlling — apply to every organisation, at every level, in every country. Harold Koontz called the proliferation of competing schools the “management theory jungle” |
| D. Bureaucracy | IV. Max Weber | The ideal type of rational-legal organisation — hierarchy of authority, division of labour by specialisation, written rules, impersonality, selection and promotion on technical competence, and career service |
How to solve it quickly. Two pairings are unmistakable to anyone who has read the subject at all: Taylor with time and motion study and Weber with bureaucracy. Fixing A-III and D-IV eliminates every option except 2.
The line of development the four represent. Taylor and Weber belong to the classical school, which treats the organisation as a machine to be engineered for efficiency. Mayo’s work opened the neo-classical or human relations school, which treats it as a social system. Koontz belongs to the later attempt to reconcile the schools into a single management-process framework. Each is a reaction to the limitations of the one before — which is the shape of the subject’s history.
Hence, the answer is A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV.
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