Review test 1-4

One graphic representation of the tasks required over the course of a project is called a

• scheduling chart

• Gantt chart

• project planning chart

• task chart

A motivation for scientific management, which uses time and motion studies and work standardizations, is to:

• make manual labor run more efficiently

• make workers solely responsible for improving their conditions

• require employees to choose their own work and train themselves

• increase stakeholder buy in

Prior to Taylor, managers were owners or appointed by the owners with no role beyond oversight. Taylor said managers had responsibilities such as

• recording all administrative decisions in writing

• optimizing the work process and training employees to follow it

• hiring new employees based on their degree or family ties

• oversight only

The Gilbreths both belonged to the classical school of management, which emphasized increasing

• stakeholders and profit

• worker productivity by scientific analysis

• base pay for first-class workers

• communication between managers and workers and between workers

Many companies are organized along functional lines. In these companies, accountants report to a senior accountant; salespeople report to an executive of sales. These companies follow which organization design thinker from 100 years ago, who said activities that are similar should be the responsibility of one person?

• Henry Ford

• Mary Parker Follett

• Luis Chevrolet

• Henri Fayol

Criticism of Taylor’s Scientific Management sparked a new movement called Humanistic Management. This movement shifted management emphasis to

• time and motion studies

• project management

• people and work relationships

• assembly lines

Mary Parker Follett has been called the “mother of modern management.” Her ideas anticipated employment relationships that are more common today than in the 1920s. She focused on the

• ability of an organization’s leaders rather than their technical ability

• fairs day pay for a fairs day work

• informal and lateral processes within an organization

• hierarchy of command

Biologists have learned to look at animals as part of a web of life. Grasshoppers don’t live in isolation away from the birds who prey on them or the vegetation that feeds them. Businesses cannot be perfected in isolation from their customers, competition, and community. This view of management is

• the strategic view of management

• the systems approach to management

• project management

• the holistic view of business

Google has indexed the World Wide Web to make sure information is available quickly in a form that people can apply. Google’s competitive advantage depends on

• scientific management

• contingency

• information management

• Web management

Who is the Father of Scientific Management