BCOR 370 WVU EXAM 1 HOUGHTON
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Organization - ANS A systematic arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose
Why do we have organizations? - ANS -efficiency; to accomplish specific objectives
-serve society
-provide careers
How do organizations accomplish their objectives? - ANS -Basic framework of management
-Decision Making
Basic Framework of Management - ANS -Planning
-Organizing
-Leading
-Controlling
Management - ANS The process of achieving goals, effectively and efficiently through, and
with other people.
What is scientific management? - ANS The use of the scientific method to determine the
"one best way" to perform a job or task
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, Frederick Taylor - ANS "The Father of Scientific Management"
-wrote the first management textbook
Frank and Lilian Gilbreth - ANS Used scientific management:
-motion studies
-Brick laying example
What is the Legacy of Scientific Management? - ANS -Fast efficient assembly lines
-techniques used from fast food to surgery
-job design, selection, training
During the 1920's and 1930's... - ANS Management is dominated by "efficiency experts"
concentrating on efficiency and productivity above all else
What do you see as some of the problems with this approach to management? -
ANS Emphasis on productivity and profitability resulted in unhappy workers, labor unions
and strikes
Bureaucracy - ANS An organization design marked by specialization, division of labor,
authority hierarchies and formal rules and procedures
Max Weber - ANS Observed that the bureaucracy was the dominant organization type
because it was the most efficient
Mary Parker Follett - ANS Wrote about human factors in the work place
Elton Mayo - ANS The Hawthorne Studies
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Organization - ANS A systematic arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose
Why do we have organizations? - ANS -efficiency; to accomplish specific objectives
-serve society
-provide careers
How do organizations accomplish their objectives? - ANS -Basic framework of management
-Decision Making
Basic Framework of Management - ANS -Planning
-Organizing
-Leading
-Controlling
Management - ANS The process of achieving goals, effectively and efficiently through, and
with other people.
What is scientific management? - ANS The use of the scientific method to determine the
"one best way" to perform a job or task
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Frederick Taylor - ANS "The Father of Scientific Management"
-wrote the first management textbook
Frank and Lilian Gilbreth - ANS Used scientific management:
-motion studies
-Brick laying example
What is the Legacy of Scientific Management? - ANS -Fast efficient assembly lines
-techniques used from fast food to surgery
-job design, selection, training
During the 1920's and 1930's... - ANS Management is dominated by "efficiency experts"
concentrating on efficiency and productivity above all else
What do you see as some of the problems with this approach to management? -
ANS Emphasis on productivity and profitability resulted in unhappy workers, labor unions
and strikes
Bureaucracy - ANS An organization design marked by specialization, division of labor,
authority hierarchies and formal rules and procedures
Max Weber - ANS Observed that the bureaucracy was the dominant organization type
because it was the most efficient
Mary Parker Follett - ANS Wrote about human factors in the work place
Elton Mayo - ANS The Hawthorne Studies
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
