Quizizz #1: Foundations of Management

Managers who have responsibility for work activities that make a direct contribution to production of the organization's product or service are called __________.

• Middle managers

• Staff managers

• Line managers

• General managers

• Administrators

Henry Mintzberg identified a set of roles that managers perform. These roles are grouped into which of the following three categories?

• Interpersonal, strategic, and decisional

• Strategic, informational, and authoritarian

• Interpersonal, informational, and decisional

• Supervisory, authoritarian, and decisional

• Supervisory, informational, and strategic

The three branches of the classical approach to management are __________.

• Behaviourism, rationalism, and self-actualization

• Scientific management, administrative management, and bureaucratic organization

• Economic, modern, and self-actualization

• Open, closed, and entropic

According to McGregor, Theory Y managers tend to see their subordinates as __________.

• Passive, dependent, and reluctant

• Irresponsible, resistant to change, lacking in ambition, disliking work, and preferring to be led rather than to lead

• Willing to work, willing to accept responsibility, capable of self-direction, capable of self-control, imaginative, and creative

• Disliking work because they prefer to lead rather than to be led

• Basically rational and motivated by money

According to contingency theories, __________.

• The best management approach is based on Theory Y assumptions

• There is no one best management approach

• The best management approach employs formal mathematical models

• The best management approach takes all human factors into consideration

• The best management approach focuses on the economic realities of decision making

Outgoing, talkative, sociable and assertive are characteristics of which "big five" personality dimension?

• Emotional Stability

• Agreeableness

• Conscientiousness

• Extraversion

Personality is determined by a combination of heredity and environment.

• True

• False

Self-Actualization is the highest level on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

• False

• True

Top managers are more concerned with the operations of the internal environment than with activities in the external environment.

• True

• False

An organization is a __________.

• A collection of people working together in a business

• A collection of people working in different departments

• A collection of people accountable to a single manager

• A collection of people working competitively to carry out the mission

• A collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose