管理学习题2

Chapter 2 Management Yesterday and Today

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MANAGEMENT

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According to Adam Smith, division of labor was an important concept.T The division of labor is also referred to by the term job specification.T F In the Industrial Revolution, machine power began substituting for human power.T The Industrial Revolution began in the nineteenth century.F

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

5. Principles of Scientific Management was written by Frederick Winslow Taylor.T

6. “Employee motivation” is the phrase most associated with scientific management.? F

7. The primary issue that motivated Taylor to create a more scientific approach to

management was worker satisfaction.F

8. Based on his scientific management principles, Taylor suggested the incentive pay

principle.T

9. Geert Hofstede is associated with the scientific management approach.? F

10. Frank Gilbreth’s best-known contribution to scientific management concerned selecting

the best worker for a particular job.F

11. Gilbreth is best known for “the one best way.”T F

12. Frederick Taylor is most associated with the principles of scientific management.T

13. Henri Fayol was among the first researchers to use motion pictures to study hand-and-

body motions.F

GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE THEORY

14. General administrative theory focuses only on managers and administrators.F

15. Henri Fayol identified five functions of managers: planning, organizing, commanding,

coordinating, and controlling.T