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Quiz 19: Appendix 1: Managing History and Current Thinking
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Question 21
Multiple Choice
Megan, a manager in a soda company, believes that the classical approach to management will help her schedule her employees' tasks and handle people better. But using only the classical approach may not be an ideal approach because ________.
Question 22
True/False
Henri Fayol is regarded as the pioneer of administrative theory.
Question 23
Multiple Choice
Gene Co., a pharmaceutical company, directs its management to increase production through an understanding of people. The company believes that if managers understand their people and adapt their organizations to them, organizational success will follow. Which management approach is Gene Co. adopting in this scenario?
Question 24
Multiple Choice
Which of the following conclusions was drawn by the experimenters from the relay assembly test room experiments of the Hawthorne studies?
Question 25
Multiple Choice
D&B Inc. conducted a review of its organizational practices and concluded that changes to the current system would result in increased efficiency. The company proposed a change in work timings and remuneration policies and implemented it for a trial period. When the employees were surveyed by their managers to discover their reaction to the changes, most employees noted that the new system boosted productivity, though a few reported that accommodating to the new system was difficult. However, management decided to go ahead and implement the new system. The actions of the management can be explained by Fayol's principle of ________.
Question 26
Multiple Choice
Each manager in an organization possesses certain amounts of authority. For example, the president possesses the most authority; the first-line supervisor, the least. According to Fayol, this is known as ________.
Question 27
Essay
List any seven general principles of management and their defining themes as described by Fayol.
Question 28
Multiple Choice
The purpose of the bank wiring observation room experiment, which is one of the phases of the Hawthorne studies, was to analyze ________.
Question 29
Essay
What value does studying the evolution of management provide to students of managers and managers themselves?
Question 30
Essay
Compare and contrast the two distinct views that are a part of the Classical approach to management.
Question 31
Multiple Choice
One of the phases of the Hawthorne studies was the relay assembly test room experiments. The experimenters believed that if they studied productivity long enough, under different working conditions, they would discover the working conditions that maximized production. Thus, the orientation that these experiments originally had was of ________.
Question 32
True/False
According to Fayol, employee retention should not be given high priority as recruitment and selection costs of hiring new workers is low.
Question 33
True/False
A drawback of the classical approach is that it does not adequately emphasize human variables.
Question 34
Multiple Choice
Lynn is a manager in a company that manufactures optical fibre cables. She follows the Fayol principle of "esprit de corps" in her interactions with her team. Which of the following does this imply?