Exam 2: A History Module

The Industrial Revolution began in the seventeenth century.

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

Material outputs in an open system organization include ________.

In a short essay, explain how the systems approach contributes to the understanding of management.

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

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

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

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

A contingency variable that can affect managing style is organization size.

Which of the following is a contingency variable?

A typical organization can be characterized as ________.

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

Contemporary approaches to management see the organization as a closed system in which all inputs and outputs stay within the system.

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

This was one of the conclusions of the Hawthorne studies engineers.

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

A manager might turn to organizational behavior research when he or she has problems ________.

Cheaper by the Dozen is a book about this topic.

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

Many techniques in the quantitative approach to management were borrowed from ________.