Management yesterday and today

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A test on the history of Management, based on a coursebook by Robbins & Coulter.

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1
Among the implications of the Systems Approach to management, we can find:
all of them
Organizations are not self-contained
Decisions and actions taken in one area will effect other.
Coordination of the organization’s parts
2
The “Hawthorne Studies” is a series of productivity experiments conducted at Western Electric.
False
True
3
The study of the actions of people at work is called:
Systems Approach
Quantitative Management
Organizational Behavior (OB)
Scientific Management
4
Using scientific methods to define the “one best way" to do a job entails:
Putting the right person on the job with the correct tool
Having a standardized method of doing the job
Providing an economic incentive to the worker.
All of the above.
5
Among the most popular contingency variables, which ones stand out?
All of them
Routineness of task technology
Organization size
Environmental uncertainty
6
who developed fourteen principles of management that applied to all organizational situations?
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Henri Fayol
Max Weber
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
7
Organizations can be considered:
Open systems
Closed systems
8
This approach to management evolved from mathematical and statistical methods.
General Administrative Theory
Scientific Management
Organizational Behavior
Quantitative Management
9
According to this approach, there is no one universally applicable set of management principles
Organizational Behavior
Contingency Approach
Scientific Management
Quantitative Management
10
Who is considered the “father” of scientific management”?
Max Weber
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
Henri Fayol
11
Max Weber developed a theory of authority based on an ideal type of organization called:
bureaucracy
For profit organization
Well-managed organization
Business

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Management yesterday and today

11 termsStudBud Administration77 plays

A test on the history of Management, based on a coursebook by Robbins & Coulter.

Flashcards11 cardsFPractice quizPHost liveL

Questions 11

Answers

1
Among the implications of the Systems Approach to management, we can find:
all of them
Organizations are not self-contained
Decisions and actions taken in one area will effect other.
Coordination of the organization’s parts
2
The “Hawthorne Studies” is a series of productivity experiments conducted at Western Electric.
False
True
3
The study of the actions of people at work is called:
Systems Approach
Quantitative Management
Organizational Behavior (OB)
Scientific Management
4
Using scientific methods to define the “one best way" to do a job entails:
Putting the right person on the job with the correct tool
Having a standardized method of doing the job
Providing an economic incentive to the worker.
All of the above.
5
Among the most popular contingency variables, which ones stand out?
All of them
Routineness of task technology
Organization size
Environmental uncertainty
6
who developed fourteen principles of management that applied to all organizational situations?
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Henri Fayol
Max Weber
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
7
Organizations can be considered:
Open systems
Closed systems
8
This approach to management evolved from mathematical and statistical methods.
General Administrative Theory
Scientific Management
Organizational Behavior
Quantitative Management
9
According to this approach, there is no one universally applicable set of management principles
Organizational Behavior
Contingency Approach
Scientific Management
Quantitative Management
10
Who is considered the “father” of scientific management”?
Max Weber
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
Henri Fayol
11
Max Weber developed a theory of authority based on an ideal type of organization called:
bureaucracy
For profit organization
Well-managed organization
Business