Exam 17: Quantitative Module

The idea of employees being paid a fair wage for their services did not emerge until the 1960s.

Fayol feels that managers should be given authority over workers, but not the ability to give orders.

Which of the following is a contingency variable?

What we call job specialization today was termed this in the eighteenth century.

The Hawthorne studies engineers found that brighter light levels in the factory ________ productivity.

Henry Gantt developed graphical methods to help managers with ________ problems.

________ was a strong proponent of division of labor.

Job specialization entails breaking down a complex job into ________.

Industrial Revolution factories needed accurate demand forecasts to avoid making ________ products.

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

Successfully designing a 450-foot-tall pyramid is primarily evidence of which management function?

Factories in the Industrial Revolution needed to forecast demand to make sure that workers were paid fairly.

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

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

Which of the following is NOT included as part of the quantitative approach to management?

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth's best-known contribution to scientific management concerned selecting the best worker for a particular job.

Fayol's principle of ________ states that employees in an organization should be fairly compensated for their labor.

A conclusion that engineers from the Hawthorne studies made was that people behave ________ when they are being observed.

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

The best evidence that managers must have guided the construction of the Egyptian pyramids is ________.