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Questions

1. Whereas scientific management deals with the jobs of individual employees, administrative management focuses on managing the entire organization. The primary contributors to administrative management were Henri Fayol, Lyndall Urwick Max Weber, and Chester Barnard. What was the most crucial contribution of Henry Fayol?

A. Systematize the practice of management

B. Rational set of guidelines for structuring organizations in the most efficient manner

C. Developed a list of guidelines for improving managerial effectiveness

D. Major theory about the acceptance of authority

2. What is a critical element in the effective management of an organization?

A. Determining the ideal alignment between the environment and the organization

B. Knowing the general and the task environment

C. Detecting the conditions and forces within the organization

D. Understanding the nature of the organization's environments

3. Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, contemporaries of Taylor, were a husband-and-wife team of industrial engineers. Which was one of Frank Gilbreth's most interesting contributions to industries?

A. Specialized management roles

B. Field of industrial psychology

C. Craft of bricklaying

D. Improving worker output

4. What includes the sociocultural dimension of the general environment?

A. Competitors, customers, suppliers, strategic partners, and regulators

B. The extent to which an organization is involved in or affected by businesses

C. Business activities and the relationship between business and the government

D. Customs, mores, values, and demographic characteristics of the society in which the organization functions

5. Frederick Taylor developed the scientific management system, which he believed would lead to a more efficient and productive workforce. What is the third step of this system?

A. Supervise employees

B. Scientifically select employees

C. Develop a science for each element

D. Continue to plan the work