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WorksheetsDr.S.Uma's Principles of Management Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What are the major branches of the classical management perspective? (Select all that apply)
Scientific Management
Behavioral Management
Administrative Management
Quantitative Management
Contingency Management
Motivating members of the organization to work in the best interests of the organization is defined as:
Organizing
Planning and Decision Making
Controlling
Leading
The quantitative management perspective:
Proposes that workers respond primarily to the social context of the workplace.
Focuses on managing the organization as a whole.
Is everything outside an organization's boundaries that might affect it.
Focuses on decision making, cost effectiveness, mathematical models, and the use of computers.
Emphasizes individual attitudes and behaviors and group processes.
Setting the organization's goals and deciding how best to achieve those goals is defined as:
Organizing
Planning and Decision Making
Controlling
Leading
skills depend on the manager's ability to think in the abstract.
Technical
Interpersonal
Conceptual
Decision Making
Time Management
skills refer to the manager's ability to prioritize work, to work efficiently, and to delegate appropriately.
Technical
Interpersonal
Conceptual
Decision Making
Time Management
skills are necessary to accomplish or understand the specific kind of work done in an organization.
Technical
Interpersonal
Conceptual
Decision Making
Time Management
Determining how best to group activities and resources is defined as:
Organizing
Planning and Decision Making
Controlling
Leading
The behavioral management perspective:
Proposes that workers respond primarily to the social context of the workplace.
Is concerned with improving the performance of individual workers.
Focuses on managing the organization as a whole.
Is a framework for organizing knowledge and providing a blue print for action.
Emphasizes individual attitudes and behaviors and group processes.
Scientific management was concerned with improving efficiency and work methods for individual workers.
True
False
What are the types of managers associated with specific areas within the organization? (Select all that apply)
Marketing Managers
Financial Managers
Operations Managers
Human Resource Managers
Top Managers
Scientific management was concerned with how organizations should be structured to ensure efficient operations.
True
False
Monitoring and correcting ongoing activities that facilitate goal attainment is defined as:
Organizing
Planning and Decision Making
Controlling
Leading
What do managers do that differentiates them from non-managerial workers?
Managers organize the work of other people.
Managers complete important paperwork.
Managers work directly on providing the product or service that the company sells.
Managers have no one reporting to them.
_____ is referred to as "doing things right"; _____ is referred to as "doing the right things."
Efficacy; effectiveness
Efficiency; economy
Efficiency; effectiveness
Economy, efficacy
Which of the following is NOT one of the four functions managers perform?
Organizing
Serving
Controlling
Planning
The universality of management concept suggests that _____.
management is needed in all types and sizes of organizations and at all organizational levels
all managers play similar roles as they manage people
technical, human, and conceptual skills are necessary for success in management
most college graduates entering the workforce will either manage or be managed
Which of the following phrases is most associated with scientific management?
management relations
one best way
supply and demand
quality control
The 14 principles of management are associated with Fayol.
True
False
An organization that has a division of labor, a clearly defined hierarchy, detailed rules, and impersonal relationships would be described as a bureaucracy.
True
False
