MGT 500 Exam 1 questions with answers
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4 Tasks of Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Planning
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2. Organizing
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3. Leading
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4. Controlling
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Planning - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔choose appropriate
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organizational goals and courses of action to best achieve those
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goals.
Organizing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Establish task and authority
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relationships that allow people to work together to achieve
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organization goals. |\
Leading - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Motivate, coordinate, and
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energize individuals and groups to work together to achieve
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organizational goals. |\
Controlling - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Establish accurate
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measuring and monitoring systems to evaluate how well the
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organization has achieved its goals. |\ |\ |\ |\
Efficiency - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Getting the most output from
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the least amount of resources.
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, Effectiveness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Doing those work |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
activities that will result in achieving goals.
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Universality of Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the reality |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
that management is needed in all types and sizes of
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organizations, at all organizational levels, in all organizational |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
areas, and in organizations no matter where located.
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Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔The process of studying workers to find the most efficient
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ways of doing things then teaching people those techniques. Led
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to specialization and division of labor by identifying tasks,
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appropriate workers, and incentives. |\ |\ |\
Max Weber's Bureaucracy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Made
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managers legitimate authorities/powers, not just social standing.
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Creation of hierarchy. |\ |\
May Parker Follett - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Thought
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organizations should be based on group ethic. Empowered |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
employees with participative, cross-functional self-managed
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teams.
Hawthorn Studies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Studies conducted
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during the 1920s and 1930s that suggested the importance of
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the informal organization and led to the redesign of jobs,
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changes in the workday and workweek length, introduction of
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rest periods, and individual versus group wage plans. Social
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norms/group standards were the key determinants of individual |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
work behavior, not incentives.
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4 Tasks of Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Planning
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2. Organizing
|\
3. Leading
|\
4. Controlling
|\
Planning - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔choose appropriate
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
organizational goals and courses of action to best achieve those
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
goals.
Organizing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Establish task and authority
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
relationships that allow people to work together to achieve
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
organization goals. |\
Leading - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Motivate, coordinate, and
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energize individuals and groups to work together to achieve
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
organizational goals. |\
Controlling - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Establish accurate
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
measuring and monitoring systems to evaluate how well the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
organization has achieved its goals. |\ |\ |\ |\
Efficiency - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Getting the most output from
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the least amount of resources.
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, Effectiveness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Doing those work |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
activities that will result in achieving goals.
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Universality of Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the reality |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
that management is needed in all types and sizes of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
organizations, at all organizational levels, in all organizational |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
areas, and in organizations no matter where located.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔The process of studying workers to find the most efficient
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ways of doing things then teaching people those techniques. Led
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
to specialization and division of labor by identifying tasks,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
appropriate workers, and incentives. |\ |\ |\
Max Weber's Bureaucracy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Made
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managers legitimate authorities/powers, not just social standing.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Creation of hierarchy. |\ |\
May Parker Follett - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Thought
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
organizations should be based on group ethic. Empowered |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
employees with participative, cross-functional self-managed
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
teams.
Hawthorn Studies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Studies conducted
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
during the 1920s and 1930s that suggested the importance of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the informal organization and led to the redesign of jobs,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
changes in the workday and workweek length, introduction of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
rest periods, and individual versus group wage plans. Social
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
norms/group standards were the key determinants of individual |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
work behavior, not incentives.
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