Response the below:
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
Question 1
One way to think of ______ is "the art of getting things done through people."
C. management
C. management
Question 2
The pursuit of organizational goals efficiently and effectively by integrating the work of people through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the organization's resources is called
D. management.
D. management.
Question 3
A group of people who work together to achieve some specific purpose is/are called
D. an organization.
D. an organization.
Question 4
Elian, a manager at a busy restaurant, was very careful about how he scheduled his personnel, making sure everyone was busy during work, and he carefully watched his other costs too, getting competitive bids from suppliers on a regular basis. Elian would best be described as a(n) _____ manager.
A. efficient
A. efficient
Question 5
To be ______ as a manager means to make the right decisions and successfully carry them out to achieve goals.
D. effective
D. effective
Question 6
The _________ effect states that your influence on the organization is multiplied far beyond the results that can be achieved by just one person acting alone.
B. multiplier
B. multiplier
Question 7
According to a Fortune article, the scarcest, most valuable resource in business is not financial capital but
E. skilled effective managers.
E. skilled effective managers.
Question 8
Which of the following is the most likely payoff of studying management as a discipline?
B. You will understand how to relate to and interact with your supervisors and co-workers.
B. You will understand how to relate to and interact with your supervisors and co-workers.
Question 9
Which of the following is NOT a reward for practicing management?
E. You can become exempt from many of society's ethical standards.
E. You can become exempt from many of society's ethical standards.
Question 10
Which of the following is a challenge facing managers today?
D. Managing to achieve the manager's own happiness and life goals
D. Managing to achieve the manager's own happiness and life goals
Question 11
"True is better than new" is one of the truths of
D. evidence-based management.
D. evidence-based management.
Question 12
The contemporary perspective includes which of the following viewpoints?
C. Contingency
C. Contingency
Question 13
Which of the following is a good reason for studying theoretical perspectives of management?
D. Provides clues to the meaning of your managers' decisions
D. Provides clues to the meaning of your managers' decisions
Question 14
Scientific and administrative management are part of the ________ viewpoint.
C. classical
C. classical
Question 15
______ emphasized the scientific study of work methods to improve productivity of individual workers.
A. Scientific management
A. Scientific management
Question 16
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth identified 17 basic units of _____, each of which they called a "therblig".
E. motion
E. motion
Question 17
Which of the following is NOT one of the principles proposed by Fredrick Taylor to eliminate soldiering?
B. Apply rule-of-thumb methods to the study of the task
B. Apply rule-of-thumb methods to the study of the task
Question 18
Fredrick Taylor and the Gilbreths were proponents of which of the following?
E. Scientific management
E. Scientific management
Question 19
Abby runs a house-cleaning service and has noticed that some of her staff are much more efficient than others and can clean a house in about half the average time. She would like to reward these workers with a higher wage by implementing what would be known by Taylor as a(n)
C. differential rate system.
C. differential rate system.
Question 20
Taylor called the tendency for people to deliberately work at less than full capacity
E. soldiering
E. soldiering