MHR 405 MIDTERM || QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS!!
what are organizations correct answer Social inventions for accomplishing common goals
through group effort
What is (HRM) Human Resource Management? correct answer how companies acquire,
train, motivate, organize, develop, and maintain employees
what is organizatioal behaviour correct answer The attitudes and behaviours of individuals
andgroups in organizations
Why Study Organizational Behaviour correct answer To better understand people in the
organizational context and the success / failure of organizational decisions
Management Streams correct answer Attempts to prescribe the "correct" way to
manageindividuals.
what are the 2 basic phases of managment streams correct answer The classical view and
bureaucracy- The human relations view
The Classical View correct answer A high degree of specialization of labour
- Centralized decision making
- Tight control on employees
Scientific Management correct answer Application of scientific methods in order to improve
organizational tasks(rationalization of the work)
Horizontal division of the work correct answer Each person handles a different part of the
task
Vertical division of the work correct answer Implication of the top managers only to conceive
how work is done
Henry Ford (1863-1947) correct answer Application 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 correct answer •Improvement of the productivity (Taylor and
Ford)
•Decrease of the selling price (Ford)
•Increase of the remuneration (Ford)
•Increase of the profits (Taylor and Ford)
The limits (Taylor and Ford): correct answer •Problems of demotivation and burnout
•Not adapted to the evolutions of the society (diversity of products, quality,innovation...
What is a bureaucracy? correct answer a system of government in which most of the
important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS!!
what are organizations correct answer Social inventions for accomplishing common goals
through group effort
What is (HRM) Human Resource Management? correct answer how companies acquire,
train, motivate, organize, develop, and maintain employees
what is organizatioal behaviour correct answer The attitudes and behaviours of individuals
andgroups in organizations
Why Study Organizational Behaviour correct answer To better understand people in the
organizational context and the success / failure of organizational decisions
Management Streams correct answer Attempts to prescribe the "correct" way to
manageindividuals.
what are the 2 basic phases of managment streams correct answer The classical view and
bureaucracy- The human relations view
The Classical View correct answer A high degree of specialization of labour
- Centralized decision making
- Tight control on employees
Scientific Management correct answer Application of scientific methods in order to improve
organizational tasks(rationalization of the work)
Horizontal division of the work correct answer Each person handles a different part of the
task
Vertical division of the work correct answer Implication of the top managers only to conceive
how work is done
Henry Ford (1863-1947) correct answer Application 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 correct answer •Improvement of the productivity (Taylor and
Ford)
•Decrease of the selling price (Ford)
•Increase of the remuneration (Ford)
•Increase of the profits (Taylor and Ford)
The limits (Taylor and Ford): correct answer •Problems of demotivation and burnout
•Not adapted to the evolutions of the society (diversity of products, quality,innovation...
What is a bureaucracy? correct answer a system of government in which most of the
important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
