Test Bank For Leading and Managing in Canadian
Nursing 1st Edition Yoder Wise 9781926648613 |
All Chapters with Answers and Rationals
1. The late famed management theorist Peter Drucker is often credited with creating the modern study
of management.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
2. Efficiency refers to the degree to which the organization achieves a stated objective.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
3. Technical skills are most important for employees who don't manage others, while conceptual skills
are more important for managers.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
4. The individual performer is a generalist and coordinates a broad range of activities.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
5. A manager forwards information to other organization members in the disseminator role.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
,6. Different technological advances like social media have led to a decline in organizational hierarchies.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
7. The humanistic perspective contains three subfields: scientific management, bureaucratic
organizations, and administrative principles.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
8. A criticism of scientific management is that it ignores the social context of work and higher needs of
workers.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
9. Administrative acts and decisions recorded in writing is one of the six characteristics of the ideal
bureaucracy.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
10. Fayol's unity of command principle dictates that similar activities in an organization should be
grouped together under one manager.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
11. The scalar chain is a hypothetical chain that provides horizontal links between unionized workers in
different departments in an organization.
, a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
12. The Hawthorne studies led to the early conclusion that positive human relations can lead to
significantly higher performance.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
13. An assumption of Theory Y is that the average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will
avoid it if possible.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
14. The systems thinking approach develops theories about human behavior based on scientific
methods and study.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
15. Organization development is a specific set of management techniques based on the behavioral
science approach.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
16. The management science approach uses qualitative data in management decision making.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
Nursing 1st Edition Yoder Wise 9781926648613 |
All Chapters with Answers and Rationals
1. The late famed management theorist Peter Drucker is often credited with creating the modern study
of management.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
2. Efficiency refers to the degree to which the organization achieves a stated objective.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
3. Technical skills are most important for employees who don't manage others, while conceptual skills
are more important for managers.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
4. The individual performer is a generalist and coordinates a broad range of activities.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
5. A manager forwards information to other organization members in the disseminator role.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
,6. Different technological advances like social media have led to a decline in organizational hierarchies.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
7. The humanistic perspective contains three subfields: scientific management, bureaucratic
organizations, and administrative principles.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
8. A criticism of scientific management is that it ignores the social context of work and higher needs of
workers.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
9. Administrative acts and decisions recorded in writing is one of the six characteristics of the ideal
bureaucracy.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
10. Fayol's unity of command principle dictates that similar activities in an organization should be
grouped together under one manager.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
11. The scalar chain is a hypothetical chain that provides horizontal links between unionized workers in
different departments in an organization.
, a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
12. The Hawthorne studies led to the early conclusion that positive human relations can lead to
significantly higher performance.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
13. An assumption of Theory Y is that the average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will
avoid it if possible.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
14. The systems thinking approach develops theories about human behavior based on scientific
methods and study.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
15. Organization development is a specific set of management techniques based on the behavioral
science approach.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:True
16. The management science approach uses qualitative data in management decision making.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER:False
