Chapter 2 · A Short History of Management Theory and Practice
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Adapted from Bruno Dyck, Arran Caza, Patrick Adriel H. Aure, James Leaman, Joel Marcus, Shieradel Jimenez, and Anne Kato, Management: Financial, Social, and Ecological Well-Being, 2nd ed. (2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. These adaptations use CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Questions are original study aids, not an instructor quiz or predictions of exam contents. Assigned chapter: https://pressbooks.openedmb.ca/management/?p=679 Enter the requested term or abbreviation. Accepted spelling variants are supplied where appropriate.
Questions
01Identify the concept: people create and sustain a meaning, then treat it as objective reality.
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02Identify the member-owned organization governed democratically by its members.
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03Name the pre-contemporary revolution that domesticated plants and animals and enabled settlements.
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04Identify Aristotle’s economics concerned with meeting community needs rather than unlimited financial accumulation.
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05Name the contemporary era, dated 1910–1930 in the textbook, emphasizing organizing.
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06Identify the chart showing tasks or work stages against time for project scheduling.
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07Name Fayol’s principle that each employee reports to one immediate superior.
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08Identify the effect in which awareness of being studied can change behavior.
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09Give the theory label for managerial assumptions that workers can be motivated, responsible, and fulfilled by work.
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10Identify the systems term for joint performance exceeding the sum of separate contributions.
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11Identify Simon’s term for decision limits caused by incomplete information and limited processing ability.
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12Identify the process whereby a rule persists because it is valued for itself even after it stops serving the organization.
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