Engineering Management Combo
questions with correct answers
respectively.
Engineering ANS - the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of
engines, machines, and structures.
Types of Engineers ANS - Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Electrical
Management ANS - An organizational or administrative Process; a science, discipline, or art; the group of
people running an organization; an occupational career
Management Skills ANS - Technical, Interpersonal, and conceptual
Management Levels ANS - First-line managers, Middle Managers, Top Managers
Profession ANS - a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal
qualification.
Henri Fayol ANS - Divided managerial activities into five elements: Planning organizing, command,
coordination, and control
Functions of management ANS - The duties of a manager that make them essential to the company.
Professional societies ANS - a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the
interests of individuals engaged in that profession and the public interest.
Factory System ANS - Recruit and train workers, supervisors needed training, managers were usually
relatives
,James Watt ANS - created the steam engine
Scientific management ANS - Finding better, more efficient ways to do things
Taylorism ANS - the principles or practice of scientific management.
Fredrick Taylor ANS - Father of scientific management, time and motion studies, "one best way" to do
job, selection, training, teaching were key
Frank Gilbreth ANS - the mechanics of work and movement
Lillian M. Gilbreth ANS - psychological aspects of work
Charles Babbage ANS - patron saint of operations research and management science and grandfather of
scientific management.
Henry Townsend ANS - cited the need for a medium for the interchanged of management experience by
the publication of papers and reports, and by meetings for the discussion of papers and interchange of
options.
Hawthorne Experiments ANS - intent was to identify optimal lighting, determined that attention to
workers during the study motivated better performance.
Max Weber ANS - classical organizational theory, emphasized division of labor, hierarchy for authority,
employment based on expertise (not relationship), inflexible, rigid rule-based, impersonal and impartial.
Abilene Paradox ANS - the situations that results when groups take an actions that contradicts what
members of the group silently agree they want or need to do.
Project Management ANS - the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to
achieve the project objectives.
,Leadership ANS - the process of influencing others to achieve group or organizational goals
Motivation ANS - A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
McGregor's Two Factor theory ANS - postulated two contrasting sets of assumptions about the average
worker
Maslows's Hierarchy ANS - A 5 level theory that suggests what a person needs at each level.
Leadership traits ANS - Innate personal qualities that make for a successful leader
Titular leaders ANS - positions that give them the opportunity to prove themselves effective at
leadership.
Emergent ANS - leaders evolve from their expertise or referent power as it is expressed in the process of
group activity.
Myer's Briggs ANS - Measures personal preferences on four scales, each made up of two opposite
preferences.
Dale Carnegie ANS - famous for writing a self-help book about how to win friends and influence people
Leadership Grid ANS - An approach to understanding a leader's or manager's concern for results
(production) and concern for people
Maturity theory ANS - A philosophy of management that people develop along a continuum from
immaturity to maturity
Leadership continuum ANS - continuum identifies a range of levels of leadership from boss-centered to
subordinate-centered leadership
, Autocratic ANS - absolute in power or authority
Diplomatic ANS - manager makes decisions without consultation but tries to persuade non-managers to
accept them.
Consultive ANS - Manager obtains non-mangers' ideas and uses them in decision making.
Participative ANS - Manager involves non-managers heavily in the decision.
Situational model ANS - links the leader's behavioral style with the readiness level of followers
Servant leadership ANS - practical philosophy that supports people people who choose to serve first,
and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions.
Bureaucrat ANS - We go by the book
Zealot ANS - We do things my way, in spite of the organization
Machiavellian ANS - we depersonalize and use you
Missionary ANS - we love one another
Climber ANS - i vault over anyone i can
Exploiter ANS - when i bark, they jump
Temporizer ANS - we bend to the strongest pressure
Glad-Hander ANS - we sell the sizzle, not the steak
questions with correct answers
respectively.
Engineering ANS - the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of
engines, machines, and structures.
Types of Engineers ANS - Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Electrical
Management ANS - An organizational or administrative Process; a science, discipline, or art; the group of
people running an organization; an occupational career
Management Skills ANS - Technical, Interpersonal, and conceptual
Management Levels ANS - First-line managers, Middle Managers, Top Managers
Profession ANS - a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal
qualification.
Henri Fayol ANS - Divided managerial activities into five elements: Planning organizing, command,
coordination, and control
Functions of management ANS - The duties of a manager that make them essential to the company.
Professional societies ANS - a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the
interests of individuals engaged in that profession and the public interest.
Factory System ANS - Recruit and train workers, supervisors needed training, managers were usually
relatives
,James Watt ANS - created the steam engine
Scientific management ANS - Finding better, more efficient ways to do things
Taylorism ANS - the principles or practice of scientific management.
Fredrick Taylor ANS - Father of scientific management, time and motion studies, "one best way" to do
job, selection, training, teaching were key
Frank Gilbreth ANS - the mechanics of work and movement
Lillian M. Gilbreth ANS - psychological aspects of work
Charles Babbage ANS - patron saint of operations research and management science and grandfather of
scientific management.
Henry Townsend ANS - cited the need for a medium for the interchanged of management experience by
the publication of papers and reports, and by meetings for the discussion of papers and interchange of
options.
Hawthorne Experiments ANS - intent was to identify optimal lighting, determined that attention to
workers during the study motivated better performance.
Max Weber ANS - classical organizational theory, emphasized division of labor, hierarchy for authority,
employment based on expertise (not relationship), inflexible, rigid rule-based, impersonal and impartial.
Abilene Paradox ANS - the situations that results when groups take an actions that contradicts what
members of the group silently agree they want or need to do.
Project Management ANS - the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to
achieve the project objectives.
,Leadership ANS - the process of influencing others to achieve group or organizational goals
Motivation ANS - A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
McGregor's Two Factor theory ANS - postulated two contrasting sets of assumptions about the average
worker
Maslows's Hierarchy ANS - A 5 level theory that suggests what a person needs at each level.
Leadership traits ANS - Innate personal qualities that make for a successful leader
Titular leaders ANS - positions that give them the opportunity to prove themselves effective at
leadership.
Emergent ANS - leaders evolve from their expertise or referent power as it is expressed in the process of
group activity.
Myer's Briggs ANS - Measures personal preferences on four scales, each made up of two opposite
preferences.
Dale Carnegie ANS - famous for writing a self-help book about how to win friends and influence people
Leadership Grid ANS - An approach to understanding a leader's or manager's concern for results
(production) and concern for people
Maturity theory ANS - A philosophy of management that people develop along a continuum from
immaturity to maturity
Leadership continuum ANS - continuum identifies a range of levels of leadership from boss-centered to
subordinate-centered leadership
, Autocratic ANS - absolute in power or authority
Diplomatic ANS - manager makes decisions without consultation but tries to persuade non-managers to
accept them.
Consultive ANS - Manager obtains non-mangers' ideas and uses them in decision making.
Participative ANS - Manager involves non-managers heavily in the decision.
Situational model ANS - links the leader's behavioral style with the readiness level of followers
Servant leadership ANS - practical philosophy that supports people people who choose to serve first,
and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions.
Bureaucrat ANS - We go by the book
Zealot ANS - We do things my way, in spite of the organization
Machiavellian ANS - we depersonalize and use you
Missionary ANS - we love one another
Climber ANS - i vault over anyone i can
Exploiter ANS - when i bark, they jump
Temporizer ANS - we bend to the strongest pressure
Glad-Hander ANS - we sell the sizzle, not the steak
