Exam 17: Quantitative Module

The Industrial Revolution is largely credited with ushering in the birth of ________.

In a short essay, discuss scientific management.

Deming's total quality management system largely ignored the needs of customers.

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

The "Whiz Kids" applied statistical methods to management at ________.

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

Maslow felt that once a need was satisfied, it ________.

The contingency approach to management states that there is a single best way to manage all organizations.

Unity of command means that all employees should answer to only one superior.

Cheaper by the Dozen is a book about this topic.

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

Both Henri Fayol and Adam Smith saw division of work as an important principle of management.

In a short essay, describe the contingency approach to management.

The Industrial Revolution marked the birth of management.

Proof that the pyramids were well-managed projects can be seen in the fact that they ________.

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

"Employee motivation" is the phrase most associated with scientific management.

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth got their ideas for management from the book Cheaper by the Dozen.

Contingency approaches to management contend that ________.

In today's organization, almost all employees have access to the mainframe computers that make up the company's computing resources.