The Father of Scientific Management

True or false: Managers are not important to organizations?

True or false: Managers coordinate and oversee the work of other people?

True or false: Middle managers manage the work of non-managerial employees?

True or false: Top managers are responsible for making organization-wide decisions?

True or false: The quality of the employee/supervisor relationship is not important for productivity and loyalty?

True or false: Managers work independently and do not require coordination with others?

True or false: Studying management has no value?

True or false: Management involves coordinating and overseeing the work activities of others so that their activities are completed efficiently and effectively?

True or false: Efficiency means doing the right things and effectiveness means getting the most output for the least inputs?

True or false: Planning is one of the four management functions and involves defining goals, establishing strategies, and developing plans?

True or false: Mintzberg identified 10 management roles grouped around interpersonal relationships, the transfer of information, and decision making?

True or false: Katz's managerial skills include technical skills, human skills, and conceptual skills?

True or false: Management is needed in all types and sizes of organizations at all organizational levels in all organizational areas in all organizations, regardless of location?

True or false: Adam Smith's book 'The Wealth of Nations' introduced the concept of job specialization through division of labor?

True or false: Fredrick Winslow Taylor is considered the 'father' of scientific management.

True or false: Scientific management involves using scientific methods to define the 'one best way' for a job to be done.

True or false: Taylor's four principles of management include developing a science for each element of an individual's work and dividing work and responsibility almost equally between management and workers.

True or false: General administrative theory focuses on making the overall organization more effective and proposes a universal set of management functions.

True or false: Henri Fayol's principles of management are fundamental rules that could be applied in all organizational situations.

True or false: Max Weber's bureaucracy emphasizes rationality, predictability, impersonality, technical competence, and authoritarianism.

True or false: The quantitative approach involves using quantitative techniques to improve decision making and evolved from mathematical and statistical methods developed during WWII.

Linear programming is a technique that managers use to improve resource allocation decisions.

Critical-Path Scheduling Analysis can make work scheduling more efficient.

The economic order quantity model helps managers determine optimum inventory levels.

The systems approach provides a more general and broader picture of what managers do than the other perspectives provide.

Closed systems are influenced by and interact with their environment.

Open systems dynamically interact with their environments by taking in inputs and transforming them into outputs.

The systems approach recognizes that all parts of an organization must work together to achieve the organization's goals.

Coordination of an organization's parts is not essential for proper functioning of the entire organization.

The contingency approach suggests that there is a universally applicable set of management principles by which to manage organizations.