This economic system in the United States did not require managers or the management profession.
What is an agricultural society?
100
The field of organizational behavior has three main goals.
What are understand, predict and manage?
100
The process of making sense of the world; in other words, each person's view of reality
What is perception?
100
Definition of a hypothesis.
What is an educated guess?
200
The father of Scientific Management.
Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
200
This is the variable or phenomenon you want to explain.
What is a dependent variable?
200
The term used when traits are assigned to someone based on their membership in a particular social category.
What is a stereotype?
200
A research term used to identify the entire universe of undergraduate college students.
What is a population?
300
The sociologist Max Weber developed a set of principles for the ideal organizational structure, which is the original B word.
What is bureaucracy?
300
There is a relationship between two different variables but the direction or causality of the relationship cannot be predicted.
What is a correlation?
300
One way to develop greater self-awarenss of perceptual biases, thus minimizing these biases in decision making is to take this test.
What is the Implicit Association Test?
300
Developing a set of questions and administering them to a sample of the population that a researcher is interested in.
What is a survey?
400
Elton Mayo and his Harvard colleagues conducted this set of research studies.
What are the Hawthorne experiments?
400
This type of research design includes an experimental group and a control group.
What is an experimental design?
400
This perceptual error occurs when we form a judgment about someone based on the original information we receive about the person. This is often difficult to change.
What is a first impression or primacy effect?
400
Gathering data with methods such as observing others, conducting interviews or participating in the job that is being studied is what type of research approach?
What is qualitative research?
500
The goal of early management theories and practices.
What is maximizing employee productivity?
500
The term used to describe the portion of the population that a researcher studies, also known as the "n"
What is sample size?
500
An example of a mental model
What is when an accounting professional sees problems in terms of accounting solutions, and marketing professionals see things from a marketing perspective.
500
The questions on a survey are written to reflect what the researcher intends to measure.