Exam 2: The Management Movement

The Wagner Antitrust Act of 1890 sought to check corporate practices "in restraint of trade."

What was Morris Cooke's contribution to scientific management?

How did Fayol and Taylor differ in orientation in their management theories?

After the Great Depression of 1929-32,unions sought and gained great advantages for the working class.

The purpose of the Hawthorne studies was to define the relationship between physical working conditions and productivity of the worker.

Which of the following uses participation as a training and motivational tool by selecting promising young employees from various company departments to form a junior board of directors?

Which of the following is one of the categories under which managers were placed until the 1930s?

Taylor and scientific management were (and still are)attacked as being inhumane and aimed only at:

Dennison advocated finding "like-minded" people,grouping them,and then developing the total organizational structure.

Proponents of the contingency approach to management believed that the best way to manage was through the use of mathematical forecasting techniques.

Ouchi's Theory Z attempts to integrate American and Japanese management practices; combining the American emphasis on individual responsibility with the Japanese emphasis on collective decision making,slow evaluation and promotion,and holistic concern for employees.

Total quality management (TQM)emphasizes finding and correcting mistakes,so that the entire organization excels in all dimensions of products and services that are important to the customer.

Henry Lawrence Gantt is best known for his work in _____.

Henri Fayol identified _____ as a management principle.

Which of the following is credited with the finding that effective supervision makes a significant impact on productivity and employee morale?

Scientific management is a philosophy about the relationship between a technique and its levels of efficiency.

Describe the Theory Z-type organization.

The major difference in the works of Taylor and Fayol was in their approach to management.

Describe the "Japanese-type" organization.

Owner-managers,captains of industry,and financial managers are all examples of professional managers who came into existence in the early 1920s.