Week 1 - L1 - Intro

Question 1

In the pre-industrial society, management was similar to ______.

Answer 1

Slavery

Question 2

Did the pre-industrial society have managers?

Answer 2

No - direct control by owner

Question 3

How did the owners (in charge) in the pre-industrial society discipline apprentices?
A. through control of resources and knowledge
B. through beatings
C. through giving them knowledge

Answer 3

A. through control of resources and knowledge

Question 4

What is the Panopticon?
A. Bringing in architecture to provide structure to large scale relations of management control
B. Separated private finance of entrepreneurs from investments
C. Fredrick Taylor developed Scientific Management

Answer 4

A. Bringing in architecture to provide structure to large scale relations of management control

Question 5

What city was the panopticon originally used?
A. An Italian Factory
B. A Moscow Factory
C. A Belgium Factory

Answer 5

B. A Moscow Factory

Question 6

The Panopticon was widely used in:
A. prisons, asylums, stores
B. libraries, asylums, stores
C. prisons, asylums, libraries

Answer 6

C. prisons, asylums, libraries

Question 7

What prison is mentioned frequently in the works of Charles Dickens? (being a debtor’s prison)
A. Marshalsea Prison
B. Marshaltree Prison
C. Moscow Prison

Answer 7

A. Marshalsea Prison

Question 8

Limited liability legislation came about in:
A. Britain in 1856
B. Britain in 1924
C. Britain in 1824

Answer 8

A. Britain in 1856

Question 9

Who developed scientific management?
A. Henry Ford
B. Frederick Taylor
C. Elton Mayo

Answer 9

B. Frederick Taylor

Question 10

Who focused more on human relations and the informal organisation?
A. Henry Ford
B. Frederick Taylor
C. Elton Mayo

Answer 10

C. Elton Mayo

Question 11

What does socio-political activity imply?
A. the need to adhere to societal, political and ethical responsibilities
B. contingencies that have to be managed – contingencies of size, technology, environment, culture, workforce characteristics, etc
C. Abandonment of the notion of ‘one best way’

Answer 11

A. the need to adhere to societal, political and ethical responsibilities

Question 12

Define sense-making:
A. different missions and ways of organising
B. the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalise what people are doing, that is always occurring
C. relationships with stakeholders, technologies and other artefacts, both within as well as between organisations.

Answer 12

B. the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalise what people are doing, that is always occurring

Question 13

The Panopticon has changed from the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ panopticon to the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ panopticon.
A. digital, architectural
B. soft-power, hard-power
C. architectural, digital
D. hard-power, soft-power

Answer 13

C. architectural, digital