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1. Overall, the Classical Administrative Management perspective is that it is extremely important to determine the appropriate span of control at each level of the organization as part of the effort to promote organizational performance/effectiveness. What is span of control? Provide three examples of factors that can affect what constitutes the manageable span of control at a given supervisory level?
2. What is division of labor? What is the Classical Administrative Management perspective on this concept? While generally a useful concept in current practice, in what way may extreme division of labor sometimes be counterproductive?
3. The Classical Administrative Management perspective emphasizes unity of command and the scalar principle. What are these two concepts?  While often followed in current practice, occasional exceptions sometimes make sense.  What is an example of a "mellow exception"? What is an example of a "not so mellow exception"?
4. A major axiom of the Classic perspective is that: if a position is assigned the responsibility for certain tasks, it should have the authority necessary to do those tasks. Provide an example to illustrate this concept.
5. The "Org" Chart is one of the basic tools of the Administrative Management perspective. Why is that?
6. Overall, what is the Classical Administrative Management perspective on formalization? What is one way that the hypothetical example in the lecture illustrates this view?