Professional Organizer Certificate Course Week 1
Review Questions with Accurate Answers
The following best describes what a professional organizer does:
a. Designs closet space
b. Applies organizational systems and processes to other people's lives
c. Helps people create well-organized events
d. Practices economics correct answer (b) A professional organizer is an individual who helps other
people get organized for a living. You will apply your advanced understanding of organizational systems
and processes to other people's chaotic situations, and help them develop solutions that work in their
lives. [p. 12]
When did the professional organizing industry begin to gain recognition?
a. 1933
b. 1868
c. The early 1980s
d. When people began to gather in units or families correct answer (c) According to industry expert
Barry Izsak and president of the NAPO, professional organizing as an industry was not "on the map"
prior to the early 1980s. [p. 20]
Which forerunner in the field of scientific home management is known for developing the principal
known as "task management"?
a. Henry L. Gantt
b. Frederick Winslow Taylor
c. Barry Izsak
d. Eleanor Roosevelt correct answer (b) Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first person to set
performance standards, investigate and determine what a full day's standard work was, conduct time
studies in the work place, and to break down large jobs into smaller tasks, what he called "task
management." [p. 21]
A professional organizer may play all of the following general roles EXCEPT:
a. Professional mentor
b. Teacher
Review Questions with Accurate Answers
The following best describes what a professional organizer does:
a. Designs closet space
b. Applies organizational systems and processes to other people's lives
c. Helps people create well-organized events
d. Practices economics correct answer (b) A professional organizer is an individual who helps other
people get organized for a living. You will apply your advanced understanding of organizational systems
and processes to other people's chaotic situations, and help them develop solutions that work in their
lives. [p. 12]
When did the professional organizing industry begin to gain recognition?
a. 1933
b. 1868
c. The early 1980s
d. When people began to gather in units or families correct answer (c) According to industry expert
Barry Izsak and president of the NAPO, professional organizing as an industry was not "on the map"
prior to the early 1980s. [p. 20]
Which forerunner in the field of scientific home management is known for developing the principal
known as "task management"?
a. Henry L. Gantt
b. Frederick Winslow Taylor
c. Barry Izsak
d. Eleanor Roosevelt correct answer (b) Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first person to set
performance standards, investigate and determine what a full day's standard work was, conduct time
studies in the work place, and to break down large jobs into smaller tasks, what he called "task
management." [p. 21]
A professional organizer may play all of the following general roles EXCEPT:
a. Professional mentor
b. Teacher
