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Management Practice Test: History of management
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Management Practice Test: History of management
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1. ________ is the originator of the Fourteen Principles of Management.
2. The quantitative approach to management was largely used to improve ________.
3. Max Weber felt this was an ideal form of organization.
4. Hugo Munsterberg suggested that psychological tests could be helpful in ________ for an organization.
5. The organizers of the Hawthorne studies expected worker productivity to be proportional to ________ in the factory.
6. Many techniques in the quantitative approach to management were borrowed from ________.
7. The Whiz Kids" applied statistical methods to management at ________."
8. Material outputs in an open system organization include ________.
9. The best evidence that managers must have guided the construction of the Egyptian pyramids is ________.
10. A problem with the theories of both Maslow and McGregor is that they both ________.
11. Frederick W. Taylor is most closely associated with which of the following?
12. Mary Parker Follett felt that an organization functioned best when employees had a strong sense of this.
13. The Industrial Revolution made ________ necessary for manufacturing organization's success for the first time in history.
14. The size and scope of Industrial Revolution factories made such things as ________ necessary for companies.
15. Cheaper by the Dozen is a book about this topic.
16. The most important pre-twentieth century development in management was the ________.
17. Convincing the ministers who controlled money and resources in ancient Egypt that building a pyramid was worth the effort is evidence of which management function?
18. The only item that serves as both an input and an output in an open system organization is ________.
19. Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were best known in management circles for ________.
20. In an open system, a manager is responsible for managing ________.
21. The Hawthorne studies engineers found that brighter light levels in the factory ________ productivity.
22. Which of the following is NOT a topic that is addressed by organizational behavior research?
23. A typical organization can be characterized as ________.
24. Fayol's principle of ________ refers to how extensively employees participate in decision making.
25. These organizations were the first to employ the ideas of quality experts such as W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M. Duran.