PREMIUM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT
◉ efficiency.
Answer: the goal of scientific management was
◉ ignoring people.
Answer: scientific management focused on process and production
while largely
◉ scientific management.
Answer: made significant contributions to american industrial
assembly lines and other repetitive work situations
◉ production centered management.
Answer: scientific management strengthened the concept of
◉ job organization and cooperative motivation.
Answer: two other management systems or approaches to
classifying work evolved in the 1900s and are
,◉ job organization.
Answer: repetitive work is dominant; jobs are usually well organized
with considerable structure; tight controls are possible; output can
be accurately scheduled
◉ output.
Answer: management is focused on the process and its
◉ economic motives.
Answer: success depends on
◉ cooperative motivation.
Answer: jobs are loosely organized; tight controls are not possible;
output can be scheduled only in general terms; speed of a process is
not predictable nor necessarily desirable
◉ routine.
Answer: cooperative motivation sprang out of realization that not all
work was
◉ people centered.
Answer: cooperative motivation says that management should be
, ◉ individual enthusiasm and motivation.
Answer: in cooperative motivation success depends on
◉ theory x.
Answer: assumes employees are indifferent, passive, and even
resistant to organizational needs; supervisors must constantly
control workers
◉ theory x assumptions.
Answer: people are inclined to work as little as possible; most
people lack ambition, dislike responsibility and prefer to be told
what to do; people are resistant to change
◉ theory y.
Answer: assumes people are not passive or resistant to change;
motivational characteristics are innately present
◉ people centered management.
Answer: in most circumstances, what type of management is more
effective in inspiring productivity
◉ close supervision.
Answer: is associated with lower productivity when compared to
more lenient supervision