A Manager Who Wants to Use the Principles of Scientific

question 77

Multiple Choice

A manager who wants to use the principles of scientific management will

• A) emphasize time and motion studies.
• B) need a deep understanding of worker needs and feelings.
• C) not be required to closely supervise his or her subordinates.
• D) never actually increase worker productivity.
• E) not have to carefully select and train his or her employees.

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Definitions:

Method of Savings

A measure of retention in which the difference between the number of repetitions originally required to learn a list and the number of repetitions required to relearn the list after a certain amount of time has elapsed is calculated.

Ebbinghaus

A psychologist best known for his research on memory, particularly for discovering the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Anterograde Amnesia

Failure to remember events that occurred after physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.