Exam 17: Quantitative Module

Many techniques in the quantitative approach to management were borrowed from ________.

How many workers were involved in building a single Egyptian pyramid?

Henri Fayol and Max Weber developed the idea of the five basic management functions.

Fayol's principle of ________ refers to how extensively employees participate in decision making in an organization.

Mary Parker Follett felt that an organization functioned best when employees had a strong sense of this.

The "Whiz Kids" used statistical methods to improve decision making at the Ford Motor Company in the mid-1940s.

The Egyptian pyramids are an example of a project that was completed without the aid of managers.

Early proponents of division of labor made claims that it could dramatically ________.

In a short essay, describe the Hawthorne studies and how they were interpreted.

Evidence that managers in the fifteenth-century Venetian shipbuilding facility were interested in controlling costs is best shown by which of the following?

The "floating assembly line" in Venice operated ________.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published 100 years before the Declaration of Independence of the United States in 1776.

Henry Gantt's contribution to management theory was to develop efficient ways to schedule.

The idea of an organization being an open system was borrowed from this discipline.

Organizational behavior (OB)uses ________ experiments to find out how and why people behave in certain ways.

The primary issue that motivated Taylor to create a more scientific approach to management was worker satisfaction.

In a short essay, describe how the work of Abraham Maslow influenced management.

Which of the following is NOT a topic that is addressed by organizational behavior research?

A highly centralized organization is one in which subordinates are given a lot of opportunity to make decisions.

In a short essay, describe how the contingency variable of routineness of task might affect management style.