The year is 1910, and you have been invited to visit the manufacturing facility of Skyway Luggage. The owner of the company, A.J. Kotkins, wants your perspective on how to make his employees more efficient and productive at their work. He has also invited several other management experts, who are considered to be the leading thinkers of the day. These management scholars want to discuss whether A.J. will benefit from using scientific management, bureaucratic management, or administrative principles in his factory. As you all sit in the Skyway conference room, a lively conversation breaks out.

Which of the following management theorists is most likely to have been at the meeting?

Abraham Maslow

Douglas McGregor

Henri Fayol

Elton Mayo

Suppose that one of the management experts sitting in the conference room came from the future. She proposed using inventory modeling to make A.J.s employees work more efficiently. What management approach would she have been proposing?

Management science

Scientific management

Bureaucracy

Administrative management