steve job brr chap 1- 3

How do top managers spend most of their time?

• Making decisions and creating goals

• Overseeing day-to-day operations

• Coordinating the work of first-line managers

• Implementing plans of first-line managers

• Routine administrative tasks

Julia assigns Jason a project to be completed and then holds periodic meetings with Jason to determine whether target dates for subparts of the project are being met. Which management function do these meetings represent?

• Controlling

• Coordinating

• Planning and decision-making

• Organizing

• Leading

Which managerial skill is likely to be especially important to managers who occupy roles such as disturbance handler, negotiator, and resource allocator?

• Analytic

• Conceptual

• Technical

• Diagnostic

• Interpersonal

According to the science of management, management tasks should be approached in all of the following ways EXCEPT

• systematic

• intuitive

• objective

• logical

• rational

The classical management perspective consists of

• contemporary management and behavioral management.

• behavioral management and the operations management.

• management science and scientific management.

• contingency management and universal management.

• scientific management and administrative management.

Scientific management focuses on

• improving the efficiency of the individual worker.

• managing the overall organization.

• using capital more efficiently.

• enhancing the social aspects of the workplace.

• creating mathematical models of organization processes.

Which of the following focuses on the management of the entire firm as opposed to the jobs of individual workers?

• Contingency theory

• Theory X

• Scientific management

• Administrative management

• Hawthorne studies

Jessica tries to increase the efficiency of her production workers by paying them a piecework rate, with higher pay for higher output. Jessica's workers then develop informal standards for production, such that the slowest and fastest workers are rejected by the majority of the group. This outcome is predicted by

• scientific management.

• contingency theory.

• systems theory.

• behavioral management.

• administrative management.

Which of the following draws from psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and medicine?

• Contingency perspective

• Scientific management

• Systems perspective

• Classical management perspective

• Organizational behavior

Annette solves a set of mathematical models, performing a breakeven analysis to determine the required level of sales for a new product to make a profit. Annette is using which of the following?

• Contingency perspective

• Systems perspective

• Behavioral management perspective

• Quantitative management perspective

• Classical management perspective