Exam 4: Management Pioneers in the Early Factory

Compared with the general population, Andrew Ure provided evidence that factory workers were better off in their health, diet, and with a lower occurrence of disease.

Charles Babbage felt that the prosperity and success of a firm depended on its market share rather than the welfare of its workers.

Robert Owen was concerned with human problems of the factory, but his primary concern was the analysis of production techniques. Charles Babbage, on the other hand, was more concerned with the impact of industrialization on people.

Augusta Ada warned people against becoming dependent on the computer because it could never originate anything and operated only as it was instructed.

According to Robert Owen, the "vital machines" in his firm were those pieces of equipment that were necessary to the smooth flow of work in the factory layout.

Andrew Ure developed a particularly unique device, the "silent monitor," to aid discipline.

The first teacher of "management" was most probably:

Andrew Ure advocated three principles of action or three organic systems; which of the following is not one of the three?