Question Bank in line with Management, Tenth Canadian Edition,Robbins

Management, 10ce (Robbins)

Supplement 1 Organizational Culture and the Environment



1) According to Adam Smith, division of labour lowered productivity by reducing each
worker's skill and dexterity.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: Historical Background of Management Skill: Applied



2) What the Industrial Revolution did was substitute machine power for human power.

A) True

B) False

Answer: True

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Topic: Historical Background of Management Skill: Recall



3) The Industrial Revolution began in the nineteenth century.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: Historical Background of Management Skill: Recall

,4) Principles of Scientific Management was written by Frederick Winslow Taylor.

A) True

B) False

Answer: True

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall



5) One best way is the phrase most associated with scientific management.

A) True

B) False

Answer: True

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall



6) Taylor is best known for his 14 principles of management.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall



7) Frank Gilbreth is probably best known for his experiments in bricklaying.

A) True

B) False

Answer: True

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall



8) The Gilbreths invented a device called a microchronometer to help determine which
assembly line jobs could be eliminated through automation.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Applied



9) The Gilbreths devised a classification scheme to label 17 basic hand motions.

A) True

B) False

Answer: True

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall



10) The Gilbreths used the term therblig to refer to the one best way.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall

, 11) Henri Fayol became known as the "father" of scientific management.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: Scientific Management Skill: Recall



12) Max Weber was among the first researchers to use motion pictures to study hand and
body motions.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: General Administrative Theory Skill: Recall



13) General administrative theory focuses only on managers and administrators.

A) True

B) False

Answer: False

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Topic: General Administrative Theory Skill: Applied



14) While Taylor was concerned with first-line managers, Fayol's attention was directed
at the activities of all managers.

A) True

B) False