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1
Adam Smith believed that job specialization decreased the efficiency of the organization.
A)True
B)False
2
Taylor made extensive use of time-and-motion studies within the factory.
A)True
B)False
3
When authority is concentrated at the level of top management, this is called decentralization.
A)True
B)False
4
Mary Parker Follett believed that workers should not be involved in job analysis.
A)True
B)False
5
Control procedures are tighter in an organic structure than they are in a mechanistic structure.
A)True
B)False
6
When workers specialize in specific tasks in order to increase organizational efficiency through division of labor, this is called:
A)bureaucracy.
B)job specialization.
C)unity of direction.
D)informal organizational behavior.
7
Taylor believed that the time a worker spends on producing output would be ______ by increasing specialization in order to ______ efficiency.
A)reduced; increase
B)increased; increase
C)reduced; decrease
D)none of these.
8
According to Fayol, the chain of command within an organization that extends from the CEO to the lowest level of the organization is known as:
A)centralization.
B)line of authority.
C)equity.
D)order.
9
The idea that the typical worker is lazy, dislikes work, and will try to work as little as possible is a basic assumption of:
A)Theory Y.
B)Theory X.
C)Theory Z.
D)Theory X-Y.
10
In an open system designed by Katz, Kahn, and Thompson, when the organization purchases raw materials needed to produce goods, this occurs at which stage of the system?
A)Conversion stage
B)Output stage
C)Input stage
D)Closed stage





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