The Old-Fashioned View of Managing Projects Emphasized Directing and Controlling

question 79

True/False

The old-fashioned view of managing projects emphasized directing and controlling subordinates; the new perspective emphasizes managing project stakeholders and anticipating change as the most important jobs.

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WPA

The Works Progress Administration, an American New Deal agency, providing jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression by carrying out public works projects.

Americans

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1935-1942

A period marked by significant global events including the latter years of the Great Depression, the build-up to World War II, and early years of the conflict.

Social Security Act

A law enacted in 1935 in the United States to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.