Quiz 4

The management practice that routinize and standardize work, often using time and motion studies to break the job down into its smallest tasks, are known as: a. Scientific management b. Job control unionism c. Fordism d. Total quality management

a

Henry Ford was the first to change the production system from a static line to a moving assembly line.

False

Machine-paced production increased worker discretion over their work.

False

The Great Depression led to the expansion of corporate welfare programs.

False

The Ford $5.00 per day was divided roughly equal parts wages and profit sharing.

True

The Ford Production System enabled Ford to continuously reduce the price of the Model T.

True

The Ford Service Department visited workers' homes to ensure that they and their families were living right.

True

The Oldsmobile was the first mass produced automobile.

True

14,000 immigrant workers completed the Ford English School between 1914 and 1917.

True

By 1920 half the cars in the world were Model T Fords.

True

Ford's inspiration for the moving assembly lines by means of conveyor belts was the meatpacking industry.

True

The primary reason Ford raised wages for his workers to $5.00 per day was to: a. Enable his workers to buy the cars they made b. Reduce the Company's turnover or quit rate from 370% per year ( hired 52,000 workers in 1913 to maintain a workforce of 14,000) c. Compensate workers for boring, repetitive, and degrading work d. Attract a more skilled workforce

b

The composition of the workforce in Ford Production System and the new mass production industries changed in the following ways except: a. an increase in supervisors b. an increase in unskilled workers c. an increase in skilled workers d. an increase in inspectors

c

The Ford corporate welfare strategy include all of the following except: a. The Ford Sociology Department b. profit sharing c. The Ford English School d. The Ford company union

d

Which of these are elements of the Ford Production System. a.scientific Management b.Moving Assembly Line c.Interchangeable Parts d.Machine Tools e.all the above

e all