Review of The Management History

Convincing ministers in Egypt that building a pyramid was worthy is evidence of which function?

• Leading
• Planning
• Organizing
• Controlling

What we call job specialization today was termed this in the eighteenth century.

• Job sharing
• Bureaucracy
• Division of work
• Division of labor

Frederick Taylor is most closely associated with which of the following?

• Division of labor
• Scientific management
• Time and motion studies
• General administrative theory

A major contribution that Taylor made to the study of management was ________.

• to measure efficiency on a 4-star scale
• to measure inefficiency on a 4-star scale
• to identify the one best way to get a job done
• to identify the three best ways to get a job done

Prior to the Hawthorne studies, managers paid little attention to ________ in making decisions.

• efficiency
• cost control
• productivity
• human behavior