Exam 16: Appendix: History Module

The division of labor is also referred to by the term job specification.

________ was a strong proponent of division of labor.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of five needs theory suggested once a need was satisfied, it stopped motivating behavior.

Job specialization continues to be a popular way to increase productivity today.

Prior to the Hawthorne studies, managers paid little attention to the role of ________ in making decisions.

The Industrial Revolution marked the birth of management.

According to Henri Fayol, the principle of ________ gives managers the right to give orders.

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

Contingency approaches to management contend that ________.

The Hawthorne studies suggested that groups could influence the productivity of an individual.

W.Edwards Deming's ideas about quality and management were first embraced by Japanese companies.

The Industrial Revolution made ________ necessary for manufacturing organization's success for the first time in history.

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

Robert Owen was greatly concerned with how workers were treated in factories of the Industrial Revolution.

The only item that serves as both an input and an output in an open system organization is ________.

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

Fayol thought that allowing employees to originate their own plans would increase motivation.

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

Mary Parker Follett's work was devoted to identifying differences in the way individuals behaved when they were ________.

Max Weber felt this was an ideal form of organization.