Question

Which of the following groups of scholars stressed efficiency in their studies?

	a.	Gilbreth, Weber, and MacGregor
	b.	Fayol, Weber, Barnard, and Follett
	c.	Mayo, Maslow, and MacGregor
	d.	Taylor, Gilbreth, and Gantt

Which of the following groups of scholars stressed rules and organizational structure?

	a.	Fayol, Weber, Barnard, and Follett
	b.	Taylor, Gilbreth, and Gantt
	c.	Mayo, Maslow, and MacGregor
	d.	Gilbreth, Weber, and MacGregor

Which of the following groups of scholars prioritized human skills over technical skills?

	a.	Gilbreth, Weber, and MacGregor
	b.	Fayol, Weber, Barnard, and Follett
	c.	Taylor, Gilbreth, and Gantt
	d.	Mayo, Maslow, and MacGregor

The research group that discovered the Hawthorne Effect was led by which of the following scholars?

	a.	Mayo
	b.	Maslow
	c.	Weber
	d.	MacGregor

Which theory employs Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, suggesting that motivation is a big factor in performance?

	a.	contingency theory
	b.	systems theory
	c.	sociotechnical theory
	d.	behavioral theory

Which kind of managers assumes that people dislike work and that employees will perform at high levels only if managers plan, organize, and closely direct and control their work?

	a.	middle managers
	b.	functional managers
	c.	theory X managers
	d.	first-line managers

Which of the following integrates mathematics into decision making?

	a.	integrative perspective
	b.	behavioral theory
	c.	scientific management
	d.	management science theory

Understanding how the parts fit together with the whole of the organization is a hallmark of which theory?

	a.	sociotechnical theory
	b.	systems theory
	c.	behavioral theory
	d.	contingency theory

Managers interested in figuring out how to help people learn to use new technology might be interested in which theory?

	a.	systems theory
	b.	behavioral theory
	c.	contingency theory
	d.	sociotechnical theory

Which of the following focuses on determining the best management approach for a given environment or management system?

	a.	sociotechnical theory
	b.	contingency theory
	c.	systems theory
	d.	behavioral theory

An integrative approach to management stresses which of the following to better understand how an organization’s subsystems interrelate?

	a.	conceptual skills
	b.	innovative skills
	c.	technical skills
	d.	interpersonal skills

Organizations that embrace knowledge management and learning engage all of their workers in which of the following activities?

	a.	planning, decision making, and controlling
	b.	leading, planning, and controlling
	c.	problem solving, enabling change, and continuous improvement
	d.	learning, organizing, and planning

Learning organizations, which share knowledge through alliances with other organizations, have three common characteristics. Which of the following is not one of these?

	a.	knowledge sharing
	b.	team-based structure
	c.	participative management
	d.	problem assessment

Evidence-based management replaces hunches and guesswork with which of the following?

	a.	research-backed best practices
	b.	knowledge management
	c.	the six A’s
	d.	continuous improvement

Asking, acquiring, appraising, aggregating, applying, and assessing—the six A’s—are associated with which theory of management?

	a.	knowledge management
	b.	classical
	c.	behavioral
	d.	evidence-based management

In recent years, organizational success has been inextricably tied to the acquisition of knowledge, which has made learning and knowledge management the responsibility of all workers and organizations.

True

False

Answer 1

As per the Chegg policy, three related questions are answered.

Efficiency refers to the ability to get output with minimum wastage of resources. In other words, efficiency is the optimum use of resources. In the given question, the name of scholars who advocated scientific management as well as the scholars who advocated the humanistic approach is given. The scholars who advocated the humanistic approach are Mayo, Maslow, and MacGregor. The scholars who advocated bureaucracy and administration as an important part of the organization are Fayol, Barnard, Follett, and Weber. The scholars who advocated scientific management are Taylor, Gilberth, and Gantt.

The answer to question 1:

Group of scholars stressed efficiency: (d) Taylor, Gilberth, and Gantt

The answer to question 2:

Group of scholars stressed rules and organizational structure: (a) Fayol, Weber, Barnard, and Follett

The answer to question 3:

Group of scholars prioritized human skills over technical skills: (d) Mayo. Maslow, and MacGregor