Deck 1: A Prologue to the Past

Question 1

The author of your text defined management as the activity that performs certain functions in order to obtain the effective acquisition, allocation, and utilization of human efforts and physical resources in order to accomplish some goal.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Management "thought"
is the existing body of knowledge about the activity of management, its functions, purpose and scope.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The traditional method of resource allocation operates on past societal precepts.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The market method of resource allocation relies on an impersonal network of factor prices and decisions to allocate resources.

Question 5

The political facet of culture includes the legal and political arrangements for the establishment of social order and for the protection of life and property.

Question 6

The organization is the fundamental unit of analysis in the study of management.

Question 7

Management facilitates the efforts of people in organized groups and arises when people seek to cooperate to achieve goals.

Question 8

Management is a closed-end activity since managers operate organizations and make decisions within a given set of cultural values and institutions.

Question 9

Customs developed in a traditional society enable technology to advance more rapidly than in a market driven one.

Question 10

The practice of management is ancient, but the formal study of the body of management knowledge is relatively new.

Question 11

The command method of resource allocation is the imposition of the will of some central person or agency upon the rest of the economy about how resources will be allocated and utilized.

Question 12

A universal concern in management is the scarcity of economic resources for a multiplicity of economic and social ends.

Question 13

Historical ______________ studies what happened in the past; historical______means using that raw material to understand better the present.

A) data; analysis
B) research; perspective
C) interpretation; synthesis
D) perspective; research
E) analysis; synthesis

Question 14

Some of the common elements of organizations throughout history include:

A) a goal to be accomplished
B) organizational members needed something with which to accomplish their goals
C) a leader
D) all of the above
E) only a and b

Question 15

Throughout history, Heilbroner has found which of the following methods of resource allocations?

A) traditional
B) market
C) command
D) all of the above
E) only a and b

Question 16

The relationship of people to resources was determined to be:

A) the political facet of management
B) the social facet of management
C) the economic facet of management
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 17

What is the distinction between management "thought"
and the activity of management?

Question 18

Identify the economic, social, technological, and political facets of culture as described in the text. How do these factors influence the job of the manager? Is management "culture-free?"

Question 19

Why do organizations exist?

Question 20

Can an organization succeed without management?