BCOR 370 WVU exam 1 Houghton questions with answers

BCOR 370 WVU exam 1 Houghton || || || || || ||




questions with answers || ||




Organization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A systematic arrangement of people
|| || || || || || || ||



to accomplish some specific purpose
|| || || || ||




Why do we have organizations? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-efficiency; to
|| || || || || || || || || ||



accomplish specific objectives || ||




-serve society ||




-provide careers ||




How do organizations accomplish their objectives? - CORRECT ANSWERS
|| || || || || || || || ||



✔✔-Basic framework of management || || ||




-Decision Making ||




Basic Framework of Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Planning
|| || || || || || ||




-Organizing

-Leading

-Controlling



Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The process of achieving goals,
|| || || || || || || || ||



effectively and efficiently through, and with other people.
|| || || || || || ||

, What is scientific management? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The use of the
|| || || || || || || || || || ||



scientific method to determine the "one best way" to perform a job or task
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||




Frederick Taylor - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔"The Father of Scientific
|| || || || || || || || ||



Management"

-wrote the first management textbook
|| || || ||




Frank and Lilian Gilbreth - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Used scientific
|| || || || || || || || ||



management:

-motion studies ||




-Brick laying example|| ||




What is the Legacy of Scientific Management? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
|| || || || || || || || || ||



Fast efficient assembly lines
|| || ||




-techniques used from fast food to surgery || || || || || ||




-job design, selection, training
|| || ||




During the 1920's and 1930's... - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Management is
|| || || || || || || || || ||



dominated by "efficiency experts" concentrating on efficiency and productivity
|| || || || || || || ||



above all else
|| || ||




What do you see as some of the problems with this approach to management?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||



- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Emphasis on productivity and profitability
|| || || || || || || || ||



resulted in unhappy workers, labor unions and strikes
|| || || || || || ||