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Railways PYQCBT 1 2016

RRB NTPC · Question 96

Who proposed the Scientific Management School of thought as opposed to the Administrative Management School of thought?

  1. Henry Fayol

  2. Frederick Taylor

  3. Peter Drucker

  4. Max Weber

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Answer: (B) Frederick Taylor

Explanation

Frederick Winslow Taylor founded Scientific Management (around 1911), which studies tasks scientifically to raise efficiency. Henri Fayol developed the Administrative Management approach, focusing on principles of managing the whole organisation.