Principles of Management Unit 2

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

Information sharing and analysis

According to Follett, in _______, each party states its preferences and attempts to reach an agreement.

Integration

The major overview of the systems theorists was that firms were an open system, that is, a system that

Interacts with its environment.

Which of the following profile of an organization emphasizes delivering value, competing, delivering shareholder value, goal achievement, driving and delivering results, speedy decisions, hard driving through barriers, directive, commanding, and getting things done?

Market culture

______ organizational structures are best suited for environments that range from stable and simple to low-moderate uncertainty.

Mechanistic

Which of the following is NOT true of the specialization of labor?

The span of control became very narrow with specialization.

Natural disaster and human induced environmental problems are events such as high-impact hurricanes, and extreme temperatures as well as 'man-made' environmental disasters such as water and food crises; large-scale involuntary migration are a force that affects organizations.

True

Overall, while economic data indicates that globalization has had a positive effect on the world economy, a dark side also shows that two-thirds of all households in 25 advanced-economy countries had incomes stagnate and/or decline between 2005 and 2014.

True

The Italian Renaissance saw the reintroduction of classical knowledge and the emergence of new knowledge and learning, much of which had economic and business implications.

True

At Patio Products International, each supervisor receives direction and information from the managers above them and passes that information down to their immediate employees they supervise. This describes which of Fayol's principles?

Unity of command

Which of the following describe virtual structures?

Boundary-less

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 the environment-industry-organization fit model, Cell 4 represents which of these environments?

Complex-unstable environment

According to Follett, in _______, neither side gets exactly everything it wants, and the best each side can do is obtain a result that each can agree too.

Compromise

Which of the following is NOT a type of general macro environments and forces?

Corporate culture

Which of the following is NOT a trend predicted by the 2018 annual Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS) in the external environment?

Denuclearization

In an automobile assembly, Elizabeth has specialized in performing the windshield installation and that is her only task on the assembly line. This is an example of

Division of labor

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

Division of labor, communication and coordination

When an organization defines itself and its niche in an environment by the choice of what sector or field of the environment it will use its technology, products, and services to compete in and serve, it is describing its ______.

Domain

Which of the following describe the cohesion of workers in a given unit or department, to their commitment to their individual goals and to their coworkers even in the face of adversity, and to the pride that one feels by being a member of the organization?

Esprit de corps

The Code of Sumerians was a listing of 282 laws that regulated a wide variety of behaviors, including business dealings, personal behavior, interpersonal relations, and punishments.

False

Women have made gains in the workplace, today they comprise the largest share of top leadership jobs—across politics and government, academia, the nonprofit sector, and business.

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 describe a shortcoming of Taylor's work?

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

A deliberate reduction of productivity on the part of the worker is called

Soldiering

Which of the following is NOT an element of McKinsey 7-S model?

Strengths

According to the authors of the 2018 annual Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), which of these considers the systemic dynamics within the organization itself?

Structural resilience

Which of the following saw the reintroduction of classical knowledge and the emergence of new knowledge and learning, much of which had economic and business implications?

The Italian Renaissance

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

Two dimensions of environment-industry-organization fit model are:

environmental complexity and environmental change