Exam 16: Appendix: History Module

The shipbuilding facility in fifteenth-century Venice resembled ________.

Making sure that a pyramid is built on time and according to plan is evidence of which management function?

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

Which person was best known for developing Theory X and Theory Y?

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

Robert Owen tried to develop ________ to improve the workplace conditions in factories.

Which of the following is a contingency variable?

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

In an open system, a manager is responsible for managing ________.

How many workers were involved in building a single Egyptian pyramid?

Material inputs in an open system organization include ________.

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

The "floating assembly line" in Venice operated ________.

These organizations were the first to employ the ideas of quality experts such as W.Edwards Deming and Joseph M.Duran.

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

In a short essay, describe how the contingency variable of routineness of task might affect management style.

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

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was first published in the same ________ as the Declaration of Independence.

Adam Smith argued that division of labor increased productivity.

Frederick W.Taylor is most closely associated with which of the following?