MHR 405 MIDTERM LUCAS DUFOUR
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
what are organizations - ANSWERSSocial inventions for accomplishing common goals
through group effort
What is (HRM) Human Resource Management? - ANSWERShow companies acquire,
train, motivate, organize, develop, and maintain employees
what is organizatioal behaviour - ANSWERSThe attitudes and behaviours of individuals
andgroups in organizations
Why Study Organizational Behaviour - ANSWERSTo better understand people in the
organizational context and the success / failure of organizational decisions
Management Streams - ANSWERSAttempts to prescribe the "correct" way to
manageindividuals.
what are the 2 basic phases of managment streams - ANSWERSThe classical view and
bureaucracy- The human relations view
The Classical View - ANSWERSA high degree of specialization of labour
- Centralized decision making
- Tight control on employees
Scientific Management - ANSWERSApplication of scientific methods in order to improve
organizational tasks(rationalization of the work)
Horizontal division of the work - ANSWERSEach person handles a different part of the
task
Vertical division of the work - ANSWERSImplication of the top managers only to
conceive how work is done
Henry Ford (1863-1947) - ANSWERSApplication of Taylor's principles + assembly line
His idea was mass production and managed to cut the process into small tasks allowing
an affordable product using mass productions
benefits of taylor/ford model - ANSWERS•Improvement of the productivity (Taylor and
Ford)
•Decrease of the selling price (Ford)
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
what are organizations - ANSWERSSocial inventions for accomplishing common goals
through group effort
What is (HRM) Human Resource Management? - ANSWERShow companies acquire,
train, motivate, organize, develop, and maintain employees
what is organizatioal behaviour - ANSWERSThe attitudes and behaviours of individuals
andgroups in organizations
Why Study Organizational Behaviour - ANSWERSTo better understand people in the
organizational context and the success / failure of organizational decisions
Management Streams - ANSWERSAttempts to prescribe the "correct" way to
manageindividuals.
what are the 2 basic phases of managment streams - ANSWERSThe classical view and
bureaucracy- The human relations view
The Classical View - ANSWERSA high degree of specialization of labour
- Centralized decision making
- Tight control on employees
Scientific Management - ANSWERSApplication of scientific methods in order to improve
organizational tasks(rationalization of the work)
Horizontal division of the work - ANSWERSEach person handles a different part of the
task
Vertical division of the work - ANSWERSImplication of the top managers only to
conceive how work is done
Henry Ford (1863-1947) - ANSWERSApplication of Taylor's principles + assembly line
His idea was mass production and managed to cut the process into small tasks allowing
an affordable product using mass productions
benefits of taylor/ford model - ANSWERS•Improvement of the productivity (Taylor and
Ford)
•Decrease of the selling price (Ford)
