Assignment

Length: 4 pages.

1. Does the pattern of management developments at GE over the last century seem to reflect the pattern suggested by management theory? Explain your answer.

2. Which of GE's management innovations seem to draw on a classical-management perspective? Which seem to draw on a behavioral-management perspective? Explain.

3. Why, in your opinion, has GE been so successful in integrating the management science approach with less quantitative approaches?

4. In what ways does the change in GE's approach to leadership reflect the same conditions as those that influence its current approach to management?

5. What information can you find about GE's Crotonville Leadership campus? How are the classes structured? Who attends? What is GE trying to accomplish with Crotonville? What important information about Crotonville seems to be kept private by GE? Why?