ADMS 1000 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
What are the 7 external environmental factors - Answers - Political and legal
Economic
Technological
Societal
Environmental (sustainable)
Labour
Global
What are Henry Mintzberg's 3 roles that managers play? - Answers - Interpersonal roles
Informational
Decisional
The Interpersonal role consists of? - Answers - Figurehead
Leader
Liason
The Informational role consists of? - Answers - Monitor
disseminator
spokesperson
The decisional role consists of? - Answers - Entrepreneur
Disturbance Handler
resource allocator
Negotiator
What are the 4 functions of management? - Answers - planning, organizing, leading,
controlling
What are the two management philosophies? - Answers - Classical and Behavioural
what are the types of management under the classical philosophy? - Answers -
scientific
Administrative
Bureaucratic
what are the types of management under the behavioural philosophy? - Answers -
Human Relations Movement
Mary Parker Follet
Chester Barnard
, Modern Behavioural Movement
What is structure - Answers - How the company is organized
Human Relations movement - Answers - Founded by Elton Mayo
Hawthorne effect: Productivity increases by employees receiving special attention.
Mary Parker Follet - Answers - Collaboration
self- management
Coordination
Chester Barnard - Answers - Organizations are social systems
Authority over subordinates
Collaboration
Modern behavioural science - Answers - Motivating employees is key
Scientific management - Answers - Fredrick Taylor (time motion studies)
Standardizing the work
Supervising workers
motivating workers
Administrative management - Answers - Henry Fayol
work compartmentalized
esprit de crops (team spirt and harmony)
all employees report to one boss
company goals take priority over individual interests
Bureaucratic management - Answers - Max Weber
Rules and procedures
hierarchy of authority
impersonality
selection and promotion
Division of labour
Contingency Approach - Answers - Organizational size
Routineness of task and technology
Individual differences
Environmental uncertainty
Structure - Answers - how the company is organized
Traditional Bureaucracy - Answers - Tall/Hierarchical
Rigid Rule-Oriented
VERIFIED ANSWERS
What are the 7 external environmental factors - Answers - Political and legal
Economic
Technological
Societal
Environmental (sustainable)
Labour
Global
What are Henry Mintzberg's 3 roles that managers play? - Answers - Interpersonal roles
Informational
Decisional
The Interpersonal role consists of? - Answers - Figurehead
Leader
Liason
The Informational role consists of? - Answers - Monitor
disseminator
spokesperson
The decisional role consists of? - Answers - Entrepreneur
Disturbance Handler
resource allocator
Negotiator
What are the 4 functions of management? - Answers - planning, organizing, leading,
controlling
What are the two management philosophies? - Answers - Classical and Behavioural
what are the types of management under the classical philosophy? - Answers -
scientific
Administrative
Bureaucratic
what are the types of management under the behavioural philosophy? - Answers -
Human Relations Movement
Mary Parker Follet
Chester Barnard
, Modern Behavioural Movement
What is structure - Answers - How the company is organized
Human Relations movement - Answers - Founded by Elton Mayo
Hawthorne effect: Productivity increases by employees receiving special attention.
Mary Parker Follet - Answers - Collaboration
self- management
Coordination
Chester Barnard - Answers - Organizations are social systems
Authority over subordinates
Collaboration
Modern behavioural science - Answers - Motivating employees is key
Scientific management - Answers - Fredrick Taylor (time motion studies)
Standardizing the work
Supervising workers
motivating workers
Administrative management - Answers - Henry Fayol
work compartmentalized
esprit de crops (team spirt and harmony)
all employees report to one boss
company goals take priority over individual interests
Bureaucratic management - Answers - Max Weber
Rules and procedures
hierarchy of authority
impersonality
selection and promotion
Division of labour
Contingency Approach - Answers - Organizational size
Routineness of task and technology
Individual differences
Environmental uncertainty
Structure - Answers - how the company is organized
Traditional Bureaucracy - Answers - Tall/Hierarchical
Rigid Rule-Oriented
