learning check Flashcards
aristotle established the foundations modern management concepts except:
a. delegation of authority
b. departmentalization
c. teambuilding
d. decentralization
c. teambuilding
john locked and jean jacques rousseau were advocates of:
a. human relations
b. leadership styles
c. empowerment
d. participatory management
d. participatory management
adam smith is referred to as the father of:
a. work motivation
b. scientific management
c. human relations movement
d. economics
d. economics
joseph wharton established the first school of:
a. applied psychology
b. professional management
c. human resource management
d. scientific management
b. professional management
in his presidential address, william lowe bryan used these words for the first time;
a. industrial setting
b. industrial management
c. industrial engineering
d. industrial psychology
d. industrial psychology
he was the first to apply the principles of psychology to motivation and productivity in the workplace:
a. walter dill scott
b. hugo munsterberg
c. elton mayo
d. edward deming
a. walter dill scott
he is known as the father of industrial psychology;
a. william lowe bryan
b. frank gilbreth
c. hugo munsterberg
d. frederick herzberg
c. hugo munsterberg
the following statements are related to hugo munsterberg except:
a. he reminded managers of organizations to be concerned with all the questions of the mind like fatigue, monotony, interest, learning, work satisfaction and rewards
b. he was the first to encourage government funded research in the area of industrial psychology
c. in the 1950s, industrial psychology assumed people need to fit the organization
d. time and motion studies became evident
d. time and motion studies became evident
he was the father of scientific management
a. walter dill scott
b. elton mayo
c. frank gilbreth
d. frederick w. taylor
d. frederick w. taylor
lillian gilbreth was known as the mother of modern:
a. family
b. science
c. management
d. technology
c. management
he was a pioneer in the study of both human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees
a. dr. morris viteles
b. robert yerkes
c. kurt lewin
d. john flanagan
b. robert yerkes
he became instrumental in the application of personnel procedures within the army during world war I
a. james cattell
b. elton mayo
c. kurt lewin
d. walter dill scott
d. walter dill scott
he started psychological corporation in 1921
a. elton mayo
b. morris viteles
c. james cattell
d. kurt lewin
c. james cattell
he was the founder of the human relations movement
a. edwin fleishman
b. victor vroom
c. david mcclelland
d. elton mayo
d. elton mayo
hawthorne effect happens when employees change their behavior due solely to the fact that they are receiving attention or are being observed. hawthorne effect happens when the physical work environment is very organized and clean.
a. true; false
b. false; true
c. true; true
d. false; false
a. true; false
the following statements are related to the hawthorne studies
a. illumination experiment
b. bank wiring experiment
c. relay assembly experiment
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
the lesson learned from the hawthorne experiments were
a. work is a social functino
b. groups are multipliers
c. people like other people to pay attention to them
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
he led the first publication on the empirical study of the effects of leadership styles
a. kurt lewin
b. morris viteles
c. peter drucker
d. douglas mc gregor
a. kurt lewin
in world war II the following was/were successful contribution/s of industrial organizational psychology
a. army general classification test
b. test of performance under situational stress
c. kurt lewin’s experiments on group behavior
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
he was the proponent of management by objective
a. edwin fleishman
b. joseph juran
c. peter drucker
d. edwin locke
c. peter drucker
douglas mcgregor was known for theory x and theory y while fred fiedler was known for
a. expectancy theory
b. contingency model
c. two factor theory
d. goal setting approach to motivation
b. contingency model
the following are included in david mclelland’s motivation-need theories
a. need for achievement
b. need for power
c. need for affiliation
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
TQM means
a. total quantitative measures
b. total quantity management
c. total quality management
d. total quality movement
c. total quality management
the following was/were related to the development of industrial organizational psychology in the 1980s and 1990s
a. increasing attention of quality circles and other participatory management techniques
b. renewed interest in organizational climate and groups
c. issues on sexual harassment
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
