Question 1
Carl Barth, using scientific management, improved productivity in an automobile company before assembly line methods were introduced.
True or False
Question 2
Females were influential in the welfare/industrial betterment movement, occupying positions that helped shape corporate policy.
True or False
Question 3
Fayol, in contrast with Taylor, focused on the orderly arrangement and integration of a firm's basic business functions (e.g., accounting, commercial production), rather than on devising systems and work methods.
True or False
Question 4
Early scientific management theory was consistent with the social values of reward for individual effort and the virtues of "rational man," that is, individuals were directed by their own self-interest.
True or False
Question 5
The original study at Hawthorne by researchers from MIT investigated the relation between productivity and group isolates.
True or False
Question 6
Elton Mayo believed that workers' problems could not be explained by any one factor but had to be dealt with in what he called "the psychology of the total situation."
True or False
Question 7
Mary Follett was a great believer in group action.
True or False
Question 8
Follett's thesis was that "man discovers his true nature, gains his true freedom only through the group."
True or False
Question 9
Moreno contributed the idea of sociodrama to the formation of "role playing" techniques and the analysis of interpersonal relations.
True or False