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| The acknowledged father of scientific management and the author of The Principles of Scientific Management was |
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Which of the following is NOT a basic tenet of classical organization theory?
Organizations exist to accomplish economic goals.
Production is maximized through specialization and division of labor.
People act in accordance with Nicolo Machiavelli's principals.
People in Organizations act in accordance with rational economic principals. |
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| People act in accordance with Nicolo Machiavelli's prinicpals. |
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| Administrative theory begins with: |
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| Authoritarian systems of management |
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| The Supervisor at her job keeps very strict time and motion control over employee work, and says there is one way to do the job. Mary refers to this as. |
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| The PODSCORB principles were closest to which theorist? |
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| Adam Smith's work on laissez faire capitalism did not claim that: |
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| the leader was urged to take into account employee motivation |
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Which is NOT included in Max Weber's theory of the ideal type bureaucracy?
Bureaucrat has complete and total control over all aspects of the position.
Appointments to office are made on the basis of technical qualifications.
The Bureaucrat's conduct must be subject to systematic control and strict discipline.
Functions of each office are clearly specified in writing. |
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| Bureaucrat has complete and total control over all aspects of the position. |
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| The Butterfly Effect postulates that... |
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| the tiniest change in the smallest part of the system can eventually produce enormous effects. |
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| Shannon Stone is expanding her bead business. She has therefor increased her workforce and has divided the activities into bead sorting, bead painting, and bead stringing. Shannon is following the principles of |
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| The division of and specialization of human labor and Adam Smith's principles of labor. |
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| The scholar who shattered the apparent politics-administration dichotomy and held that politics is an integral part of administration was... |
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| "Strategy" comes to management thepry from the ancient management scholar, Augustus Caesar, and means "the art of the general." (T/F) |
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| Words from a military lexicon are peppered throughout writings on public administration. These words reveal the discipline's military heritage [True/False] |
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| The concept of scientific management is associated with Max Weber who incorporated scientific principles into management [True/False] |
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| The experience of building and operating the Tennessee Valley Authority determined that the process of government was blatantly political. (T/F) |
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| Weber's writings on bureaucracy described an "Ideal Type" of bureaucracy, flexible, adaptable, dynamic, and responsive to changing organizational needs [true/false] |
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| Herbert Simon's theory of bounded rationality states that human beings "satisfice" because they do not have the intellectual capacity to maximize [True/False] |
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| Henri Fayol was the first to develop a comprehensive theory of management that covered six principles, including production of goods, financial and commercial analysis, security, accounting, and managerial coordination. (T/F) |
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| Adam Smith believed that capitalist, in fostering his own self interest, may often find the greatest rewards go to those who are most efficient in the competitive marketplace [True/False] |
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| When we hear jokes about the malfunctioning rocket that was called the "civil servant" because it would not work and you could not fire it, this is an indictment against Bureaucrats. (T/F) |
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| Phillip Selznick asserted that while it is possible to describe and design organizations in a purely rational manner, such efforts can never hope to cope with the non-rational aspects of organizational behavior. (T/F) |
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