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BUS/371 BUS371 BUS 371Chapter 2—The Evolution of Management Thinking PART 1

INDIANA STATE
BUS 371

Chapter 2—The Evolution of Management Thinking

TRUE/FALSE

	1.	A historical perspective provides a narrower way of thinking, a way of searching for patterns and determining whether they recur across time periods.


	2.	Studying history is a way to achieve strategic thinking, see the big picture, and improve conceptual skills.


	3.	Social forces refer to those aspects of a culture that guide and influence relationships among people.


	4.	Political forces are aspects of a culture that guide and influence relationships among people.


	5.	Economic forces pertain to the availability, production, and distribution of resources in a society.


	6.	In the Manager's Shoptalk of chapter 2, benchmarking and six sigma are the top two contemporary management tools.


	7.	The technology-driven workplace is the most current management perspective.


	8.	The early study of management as we know it today began with what is now called the technology-driven workplace.


	9.	The classical perspective on management emerged during the early eighteenth century.


	10.	A bar graph that measures planned and completed work along each stage of production by time elapsed is called a Gantt chart.


	11.	The humanistic perspective contains three subfields: scientific management, bureaucratic organizations, and administrative principles.


	12.	One of the criticisms of scientific management is it did not acknowledge variance among individuals.


	13.	Frederick W. Taylor developed Scientific Management and emphasized the fourteen principles of management that should guide managerial behavior.


	14.	Taylor was awarded the title of "father of scientific management" since he was the sole contributor in the area of scientific management.


	15.	Standardization of work and wage incentives are characteristics of behavioral science.


	16.	Scientific management developed a standard method for performing each job.


	17.	With clear definitions of authority and responsibility, division of labor is one of the six characteristics of the ideal bureaucracy.


	18.	Administrative acts and decisions recorded in writing is one of the six characteristics of the ideal bureaucracy.


	19.	One of the important reasons for the success of UPS is the concept of bureaucracy.


	20.	Fayol's unity of direction principle emphasizes that each subordinate receives orders from one, and only one superior.