BCOR 370 WVU exam 1 Houghton questions with answers

BCOR 370 WVU exam 1 Houghton questions
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Organization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A systematic arrangement
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of people to accomplish some specific purpose
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Why do we have organizations? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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efficiency; to accomplish specific objectives
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-serve society |\




-provide careers |\




How do organizations accomplish their objectives? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-Basic framework of management
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-Decision Making |\




Basic Framework of Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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Planning
-Organizing
-Leading
-Controlling


Management - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The process of achieving|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


goals, effectively and efficiently through, and with other people.
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, What is scientific management? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
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use of the scientific method to determine the "one best way" to
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perform a job or task |\ |\ |\ |\




Frederick Taylor - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔"The Father of Scientific
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Management"
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-wrote the first management textbook
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Frank and Lilian Gilbreth - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Used scientific
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management:
-motion studies |\




-Brick laying example
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What is the Legacy of Scientific Management? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-Fast efficient assembly lines |\ |\ |\ |\




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




-job design, selection, training
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During the 1920's and 1930's... - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔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
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management? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Emphasis on productivity |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


and profitability resulted in unhappy workers, labor unions and
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strikes