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Chapter 3 THE HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT


TRUE-FALSE QUESTIONS

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: The Early Origins of Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 1
1. Sumer, located in what is today southern Iraq and the first urban-based civilization, contained the
genesis of management.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: The Early Origins of Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 1
2. 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.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: The Italian Renaissance LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
3. 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.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: The Italian Renaissance LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
4. The first multinational corporations were located in Egypt but had branches across Middle East.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: The Industrial Revolution LEARNING OUTCOME: 3
5. The emergence of French power spawned the third major advance in management, the Industrial
Revolution.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: The Industrial Revolution LEARNING OUTCOME: 3
6. The Industrial Revolution saw work shift from family-led home production to factory production.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Taylor-Made Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
7. The second phase of the Industrial Revolution commenced with the establishment of management as a
distinct discipline of knowledge.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Taylor-Made Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
8. Elton Mayo is known as the father of scientific management.
a. True
b. False

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Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Taylor-Made Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
9. Taylor’s major contribution was that he prized tradition and rules of thumb over knowledge and science.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Administrative and Bureaucratic Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 5
10. Unlike Taylor, Fayol focused on overall management of the corporation rather than on individual tasks
involved in carrying out a firm’s business.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Administrative and Bureaucratic Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 5
11. The most notable contribution Weber provided to modern management was the creation of the 14
principles of management.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Human Relations Movement LEARNING OUTCOME: 6
12. 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.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Human Relations Movement LEARNING OUTCOME: 6
13. 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.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Human Relations Movement LEARNING OUTCOME: 6
14. 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.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Contingency and System Management LEARNING OUTCOME: 7
15. The major overview of the systems theorists was that firms were a closed system, that is, a system that
interacts with its environment.
a. True
b. False




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