Exam 2: A History Module

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

The Industrial Revolution marked the birth of management.

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

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

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

Contingency approaches to management contend that ________.

The idea of an organization as a system was borrowed from psychological concepts.

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

The shipbuilding facility in fifteenth-century Venice resembled ________.

Fayol's principle of ________ states that an employee in an organization should answer to only one superior.

From the Hawthorne studies' results, you might predict that the performance of a poor performing individual might ________ when he or she joins a high performing group.

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

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.

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

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

Material inputs in an open system organization include ________.

A system is defined as a set of interrelated and interdependent parts that function ________.

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

Fayol's principle of ________ refers to how to build harmony and unity in an organization.