UGRD-ENG6301 Engineering

Management
(All Quizzes, Lab & Exams)

By: DARKX

Level one are those with minimal engineering job like retailing firms.

ANSWER: True

Level three firms provide the biggest opportunity for an engineer to become the president or
general manager.

ANSWER: True

Qualitative evaluation refers to the evaluation of alternatives using any technique in a group
classified as rational and analytical.

ANSWER: False

Research is the area where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a product concept to
a finished physical item.

ANSWER: False

Management may be defined as the “creative problem solving-process of planning, organizing,

leading, and controlling an organization’s resources to achieve its mission and objectives.”

ANSWER: True
After a decision has been made, implementation follows.

ANSWER: True

After the alternatives has been evaluated, the decision-maker must now be ready to make a
choice.

ANSWER: True

Engineers are expected to perform a variety of tasks depending on their specialization and job
level.

ANSWER: True

Forecasting may be defined as the “collection of past and current information to make
predictions about the future.”

ANSWER: True

John B. Miner, developed a psychometric instrument to measure objectively on individual’s

motivation to manage.

ANSWER: True

Managerial behaviour refers to the capacity of an engineer manager to achieve organizational

objectives effectively and efficiently.

ANSWER: False

Linear Programming is a quantitative technique that is used to produce an optimum solution

within the bounds imposed by constraints upon the decision.

ANSWER: True
Proper evaluation makes choosing the right solution less difficult.

ANSWER: True

Nickles advises that, “particular effort should be made to identify all significant consequences of
each choice.”

ANSWER: False

In decision making the engineer manager is faced with problems which may be hard.

ANSWER: False

Simulation is a model constructed to represent reality, on which conclusions about real-life

problems can be used.

ANSWER: True

The engineer manager may be assigned to head a small engineering unit of the firm, but there
will not be too many firms which will have this unit.

ANSWER: True

Higgins indicates at least three general preconditions for achieving lasting success as manager.

ANSWER: False

If a manager wants to make an intelligent decision, his first move must be to identify the
problem.

ANSWER: True

Engineering management refers to the activity combining “technical knowledge with the ability
to organize and coordinate worker power, materials, machinery, and money.”

ANSWER: True
One created for a short-term purpose and have limited life.

ANSWER: Ad hoc committee

It is a permanent committee that deals with issues on an ongoing basis.

ANSWER: Standing committee

The opportunity for the development of general management skills is provided.

ANSWER: Product or market organization advantage

To maximize mistakes in decision-making planning is undertaken.

ANSWER: False

Each employee reports to both functional or division manager and to a project or group
manager.

ANSWER: Matrix organization

A quantitative or qualitative measuring device designed to help monitor the performances of

people, capital goods, or processes.

ANSWER: True

Too little resources in terms of either quality or quantity will be wasteful.

ANSWER: False

Aldag and Stearns, on the other hand, define planning as “the selection and sequential ordering
of tasks required to achieve an organizational goal.”

ANSWER: True
The intermediate plan is designed to support the strategic plan.

ANSWER: True

When structuring an organization, the engineer manager must be concerned with the following
EXCEPT:

ANSWER: Interdisciplinary

The last task of the engineer manager is to provide a sense of direction to his firm.

ANSWER: False

High conflict between division and functional interests.

ANSWER: Matrix organization disadvantage

Those individuals providing needed staff services for the whole organization.

ANSWER: Specialized staff

Those individuals assigned to a specific manager to provide needed staff services.

ANSWER: Personnel staff

The output of strategic planning is the strategic plan which spells out “the decision about short -
range goals and the course of action to achieve these goals.”

ANSWER: False

Managers who plan are afforded with the opportunity to carefully analyze situations which
directly contribute to effective decision-making.

ANSWER: True
Without the plan, some minor tasks may be afforded major attention which may, later on, hinder
the accomplishment of objectives.

ANSWER: True

It is a form of departmentalization in which everyone engaged in one functional activity

(engineering or marketing).

ANSWER: Function organization

A manager’s right to tell subordinates what to do and then see that they do it.

ANSWER: Line authority

There are many instances when managers are overwhelmed by various activities which at times
becloud his judgment.

ANSWER: True

A barriers that hindrances for effective communication arising from a communicator’s

characteristics as a person.

ANSWER: Personal barriers

The planned output of any organization will require a systematic deployment of human
resources at various levels.

ANSWER: Human resource planning

It used to measure a personality traits as dominance, sociability, and conformity.

ANSWER: Personal test

The trainees are assigned role to play in a given case incident.

ANSWER: Role-playing

Defined as an interference with the reception of a message that occurs when the message is
misunderstood even though it is received as transmitted.

ANSWER: Semantic barriers

The new employee is introduced to the immediate working environment and co-workers.
ANSWER: Orientation

An assessment of future human resource needs in relation to the current capabilities of

organization.

ANSWER: Forecasting

Organization management must find out the real reason. If the presence of a defect in the
organization is determined, corrective action is necessary.

ANSWER: Voluntary

When the employees leave an organization for any reason, it is to the advantage of
management to know reason.

ANSWER: Exit interviews

The most important step in effective communication.

ANSWER: Develop an idea

Refer to interference to effective communication occurring in the environment where the

communication undertaken.
ANSWER: Physical barriers
The purposes of the horizontal communication is/are _.

ANSWER: All of the choices

The trainee is paced in a situation almost exactly the same as the workplace.

ANSWER: Vestibule school

Refers to messages from persons in lower-level positions to persons in higher positions.

ANSWER: Upward communication

Finding out what the employees think about the company is important.

ANSWER: Employee attitude and opinion surveys

This is the movement of a person to a different job at the same or similar level of responsibility
in the organization.

ANSWER: Transfer

Refers to messages sent to individuals or groups from another of the same organizational level
or position.

ANSWER: Horizontal communication

It is a way of asking a series of relevant questions.

ANSWER: Interviews

When feelings are repressed in the organization, employees are affected by anxiety, which, in
turn, affects performance.

ANSWER: Emotive function

The evaluator composes statement that best describe the person evaluated.

ANSWER: Essay method

It is a method of direct employee participation.

ANSWER: Quality control circles

Leadership is effective when the leader’s style is appropriate to the situation.

ANSWER: Fiedler’s Contingency Model

When a person compels another to comply with orders through threats or punishment.

ANSWER: Coercive power

Where people are moved periodically from one specialized job to another.
ANSWER: Job rotation

It is one that prescribes the proper leadership style for various situations, focusing on the
appropriate degrees of delegation of decision-making authority.

ANSWER: Vroom’s Decision Making Model

Where efforts are made to make jobs more interesting, challenging, and rewarding.

ANSWER: Job enrichment

When a person has sufficient personal magnetism that leads people to follow his directives.

ANSWER: Charisma
These are skills a leader must possess to enable him to understand and make decisions
about work processes, activities, and technology.

ANSWER: Technical skills

Is a belief about the likelihood or probability that a particular behavioral act will lead to a
particular outcome like promotion.

ANSWER: Expectancy theory

It also known as autonomous work group or higher performance teams.

ANSWER: Self-management Teams

The activities of leaders require moves that will produce the needed outputs.

ANSWER: Self-confidence

These needs include freedom from harm coming from elements or from other people.

ANSWER: Security needs

Refer to the act of giving employees reason or incentives to work to achieve organization
objectives.

ANSWER: Motivation

While leading refers to the_____, leadership refers to the____.

ANSWER: Function, process

Suggests that the most important factor affecting the selection of a leader’s style is the
development (or maturity) level of subordinate.

ANSWER: Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model

Where two or more specializes tasks in a work flow sequence is combined into a single job.

ANSWER: Job enlargement

Those which are internally experienced payoffs which are self-granted.

ANSWER: Intrinsic rewards

Leaders who make decisions themselves, without consulting subordinates.

ANSWER: Autocratic leaders

There is an arrangement, called flextime, which allows employees to determine their own
arrival and departure times within specified limits.

ANSWER: Flexible work schedules

The management function which involves influencing others to engage in the work
behaviors necessary to reach organizational goals.

ANSWER: Leading

Motivation refer to the act of giving employees reason or incentives to work to achieve
organization objectives.

ANSWER: True

Expectancy theory is a belief about the likelihood or probability that a particular behavioral
act will lead to a particular outcome like promotion.

ANSWER: True

Horizontal communication refers to messages sent to individuals or groups from another of

the same organizational level or position.

ANSWER: True
Encode is the most important step in effective communication

ANSWER: False

Semantic barriers defined as an interference with the reception of a message that occurs
when the message is misunderstood even though it is received as transmitted.

ANSWER: True

Personal barriers refer to interference to effective communication occurring in the

environment where the communication undertaken.

ANSWER: False

Social needs include freedom from harm coming from elements or from other people.

ANSWER: False

Quantity control circles is a method of direct employee participation.

ANSWER: False

Self-management teams is also known as autonomous work group or higher performance

teams.

ANSWER: True

Downward communication refers to messages from persons in lower-level positions to

persons in higher positions.

ANSWER: False