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According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy

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According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2006, 12:12
According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy known as Total Quality Management (TQM)....

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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2006, 12:36
The answer should be C

In the first paragraph the author says "in conjunction with two other management systems" and in the second paragraph he elaborates on that claim.
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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2006, 13:05
I'm with B.

In the first paragraph, he says x can work along with y and z. In the second parargraph, he says, however, x is different from y and z in the following manner...
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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2006, 17:13
gmatornot wrote:
The answer should be C

In the first paragraph the author says "in conjunction with two other management systems" and in the second paragraph he elaborates on that claim.


Can you elaborate?

It seems the second paragraph calls for an exception to that claim, ""in conjunction with two other management systems"
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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2006, 22:32
Will go with B here.

Though Drucker claims that TQM can work in conjuction with tradional approaches, the second para shows that it is not a simple task as tradional and TQM employ different strategies.
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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   14 Aug 2006, 20:20
OA is C. Any comments on how this is so?
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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   19 Aug 2006, 20:39
Bump. Anyone care to explain the OA. :(
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Re: According to P.F. Drucker, the management philosophy [#permalink] New post   09 Jan 2013, 05:16
I'm with A or B ... where A looks best for me ... The OA is definitely wrong ...

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