Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. During a manager's meeting, Paula, a district manager, discussed how to handle sensitive employee issues and indicated correctly that management is really just an art.
2. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton believed that evidence-based management is founded on the belief that facing the hard facts about what works and accepting the nonsense that passes for sound advice will help organizations perform better.
3. Peter Drucker was a 20th-century socialist, opposed capitalism and believed that managers were more of a hindrance than a help to most organizations.
4. Ali, a CEO of a large IT organization, understands that many challenges are coming in his industry; therefore, he tells his upper-level management that it's helpful to look at theoretical perspectives of management to help make predictions and develop principles to guide future company strategies and actions.
5. Susan, a department manager, believes that ever since the corporate office eliminated certain benefits to reduce costs, her employees have not been working as hard as in the past. This reduction in effort is known as "soldiering."

Answer 1

1. FALSE
Certainly management can be an art. Great managers, like great painters or actors, have the right mix of intuition, judgment, and experience. But management is also a science. That is, rather than being performed in a seat-of-the-pants, make-it-up-as-you-go-along kind of way that can lead to big mistakes, management can be approached deliberately, rationally, and systematically.
2. FALSE
Stanford business scholars Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton stated that evidence-based management is founded on the belief that "facing the hard facts about what works and what doesn't, understanding the dangerous half-truths that constitute so much conventional wisdom about management, and rejecting (not accepting) the total nonsense that too often passes for sound advice will help organizations perform better."
3. FALSE
Peter Drucker "was the creator and inventor of modern management," says management guru Tom Peters. In 1954, Drucker published his famous text, The Practice of Management.
4. TRUE
Studying theoretical perspectives of management provides good theories and a guide to action that can help managers make predictions and develop a set of principles that will guide their actions.
5. TRUE
Frederick Taylor called deliberately working at less than full capacity soldiering.