Problem
You are the newly hired Operations Manager of ACME Dive Gear Manufacturing, and will oversee the production, Quality Assurance (QA), and maintenance departments. Your goal is to overall ACME from a scientific management to contemporary management approach. In your response describe and justify your response.
1) Define scientific management and choose a contemporary management technique from the textbook.
2) How will this shift change the organizational structure?
3) Which theory from the textbook will you choose to motivate your employees? Why?
4) How will this change affect the job design?