CHAPTER 1
TRUE / FALSE QUESTIONS
1. World trade is growing at a slower rate than is world gross domestic product.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
Explanation: As a result of global integration, the rate of world trade is growing faster
than is world gross domestic product. That is, the trading of goods and services among
nations has been increasing faster than the world production of goods.
2. In recent years, Japan and China have become racially diverse societies.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: easy
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
Explanation: Japan and China are basically homogeneous societies in terms of race.
3. African-Americans are one of the slowest-growing groups in the U.S. employee
workforce.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-04
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
Explanation: African-Americans are one of the fastest-growing groups in the U.S.
employee workforce, as are Asians and Hispanics
,4. In a general sense, technology is the process that converts raw materials or intellectual
capital into products or services.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
5. The Internet is an example of an electronic information sharing system.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: easy
Topic: Introduction
6. Technology can yield a competitive advantage only when it is utilized effectively.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-02
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
7. A common body of management knowledge had been developed prior to the rise of the
Roman Empire.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-02
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
,Explanation: There was no common body of knowledge or theoretical basis for managing
the Roman Empire or building the Great Pyramid of Cheops
8. A new industrial era began in the United States around the time of the Civil War.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
9. Information is a commodity that, when applied effectively, can result in higher growth
and productivity.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: easy
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
10. The formal and modern study of management started in Babylonia, around 5000 B.C.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-02
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
Explanation: The formal and modern study of management started around 1900.
11. According to Frederick W. Taylor, father of scientific management, management and
labor must operate independently to achieve the maximum good for society.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
, Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
Explanation: According to Frederick W. Taylor, management and labor must cooperate
to achieve the maximum good for society.
12. Frederick Taylor, father of scientific management, stated that there should be an
almost equal division of work and responsibility between managers and non-managers.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
13. Organizational Behavior (OB) is considered a way of thinking.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Why Study Organizational Behavior
14. The field of organizational behavior focuses on just two levels of analysis: individual
and group.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-05
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Why Study Organizational Behavior
Explanation: The field of organizational behavior focuses on three levels of analysis:
individual, group, and organizational.
TRUE / FALSE QUESTIONS
1. World trade is growing at a slower rate than is world gross domestic product.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
Explanation: As a result of global integration, the rate of world trade is growing faster
than is world gross domestic product. That is, the trading of goods and services among
nations has been increasing faster than the world production of goods.
2. In recent years, Japan and China have become racially diverse societies.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: easy
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
Explanation: Japan and China are basically homogeneous societies in terms of race.
3. African-Americans are one of the slowest-growing groups in the U.S. employee
workforce.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-04
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
Explanation: African-Americans are one of the fastest-growing groups in the U.S.
employee workforce, as are Asians and Hispanics
,4. In a general sense, technology is the process that converts raw materials or intellectual
capital into products or services.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
5. The Internet is an example of an electronic information sharing system.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: easy
Topic: Introduction
6. Technology can yield a competitive advantage only when it is utilized effectively.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-02
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
7. A common body of management knowledge had been developed prior to the rise of the
Roman Empire.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-02
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
,Explanation: There was no common body of knowledge or theoretical basis for managing
the Roman Empire or building the Great Pyramid of Cheops
8. A new industrial era began in the United States around the time of the Civil War.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
9. Information is a commodity that, when applied effectively, can result in higher growth
and productivity.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-03
Difficulty: easy
Topic: Environmental Forces Reshaping Management Practice
10. The formal and modern study of management started in Babylonia, around 5000 B.C.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-02
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
Explanation: The formal and modern study of management started around 1900.
11. According to Frederick W. Taylor, father of scientific management, management and
labor must operate independently to achieve the maximum good for society.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
, Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
Explanation: According to Frederick W. Taylor, management and labor must cooperate
to achieve the maximum good for society.
12. Frederick Taylor, father of scientific management, stated that there should be an
almost equal division of work and responsibility between managers and non-managers.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: The Evolution of Management
13. Organizational Behavior (OB) is considered a way of thinking.
True / False
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: 01-01
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Why Study Organizational Behavior
14. The field of organizational behavior focuses on just two levels of analysis: individual
and group.
True / False
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: 01-05
Difficulty: medium
Topic: Why Study Organizational Behavior
Explanation: The field of organizational behavior focuses on three levels of analysis:
individual, group, and organizational.
