MGT201- Unit 2 Quiz

Sun Tzu is considered an early contributor to the management thought in which of the following the areas?

Division of labor, communication and coordination

Which of the following is the most used organizational design?

Functional structure

Which of the following describe a shortcoming of Taylor's work?

He thought of workers as machine tools to be manipulated rather than as human beings.

What made a high level of trade and economic activity possible for the ancient Sumerians?

The introduction of writing

The major difference between scientific management and human relations theory was that human relations theory recognized that social factors were a source of power in the workplace.

True

The second phase of the Industrial Revolution commenced with the establishment of management as a distinct discipline of knowledge.

True

The great Greek philosopher Socrates stressed the development of managerial skills such as creating an atmosphere of

information sharing and analysis.

Advantages of virtual teams and organizations include cost savings, decreased response time to customers, and less harmful effects on the environment.

True

Early organizational theorists broadly categorized organizational structures and systems as either mechanistic or organic.

True

Mary Parker Follett found a way to use the tenets of the human relations movement to solve some of the problems with the scientific management framework.

True

According to Follett, in _______, one party dictates the terms of the arrangement.

dominance

An organization's external environment is also referred to as the

general environment

The key statement of the contingency school is

it depends.

Which of the following suggests that workers need merely to be unconcerned to an order to follow it and that workers will follow orders due to an individual's natural tendency to follow authority?

Zone of indifference

According to the environment-industry-organization fit model, certain industries—soft drink bottlers, beer distributors, food processors, and container manufacturers—would fit and align more effectively in which of these cells?

Cell 1

According to Weber, which type of leadership consisted of familial and religious?

Charismatic domination

Which of the following is NOT a functions of management identified by Fayol?

Coordinating

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a divisional structure?

Cost savings, greater access to a diverse labor force not encumbered by 8-hour workdays, and less harmful effects on the environment.

________ structures are, in effect, many functional departments grouped under a division head.

Divisional structure

Elton Mayo argued that an executive's purpose is to gain resources from members within the organization by ensuring that they perform their jobs and that cooperation exists between various groups within the organization.

False

Elton Mayo is known as the father of scientific management.

False

Functional structures initiated horizontal team-based structures that provided faster information sharing, coordination, and integration between the formal organization and profit-oriented projects and programs.

False

Which of the following is an inclusive concept that involves all outside factors and influences that impact the operation of a business that an organization must respond or react to in order to maintain its flow of operations?

General environment

Which of the following is an element of natural disaster and human induced environmental problems?

Health, food, stress

Which of the following profile of an organization emphasizes efficiency, process and cost control, organizational improvement, technical expertise, precision, problem solving, elimination of errors, logical, cautious and conservative, management and operational analysis, and careful decision-making?

Hierarchy Culture

The first multinational corporations were located in ______ but had branches across Europe.

Italy

According to the environment-industry-organization fit model, Cell 3 represents which of these environments?

Simple-unstable environment

All of the following are characteristics of an organic organizational structure EXCEPT:

Specialized tasks

Which of the following is a characteristic of a mechanistic organizational structure?

Specialized tasks

According to Drucker, corporate culture is more influential than strategy in terms of motivating employees' beliefs, behaviors, relationships, and ways they work since culture is based on values

True