A303

Anthropologists should strive to be Holistic, Relative, and

Communicative

Comparitive

Accurate

Objective

Each culture has its own sensibilities, values and framework. Not one culture is inferior/superior to another. This is an example of

Objectivism

Comparativism

Holisticism

Relativism

Who is responsible for the term Scientific Management?

Fredrick Taylor

Jane Hawthrone

Nicholas Brady

Elton Mayo

Developing standard methods for performing each job and providing wage incentives to workers with increased output is an example of

Taylorism

Mayoism

Free Market

Scientific Management

The illumination studies (1924-1927) showed us that:

Increasing lighting increased worker output

Decreasing lighting increased worker output

There is no significant correlation between productivity and illumination levels

Which of the following is not true for the Hawthrone studies

This was the most influential behavioral science study of a business enterprise to date

Disqualified the major principles of scientific management

People Behave differently when they are being watched

It proved that the theory of scientific management was true

The bank wiring observation room proved that:

Paying people better wages makes them work harder

Monetary incentives and good working conditions are less important to the individual than the need to belong to a group

Giving people hot meals makes them work harder

Men are harder working than women

What was the significance of the Camelot project?

It showed us that individual workers cannot be treated in isolation

It raised questions about how important wages were to the productivity of a worker

It raised ethical issues about anthropologists providing information about the people they studied

It showed us that people like belonging to a group

All of the following are the three C's of culture except

Clear

Comprehensive

Consistent

Consise

Product /characteristics that influence adoption/diffusion include Observability, Tryability, Complexity, Compatibility and:

Relative Advantage

Simplicity

Revolutionary

Creativity

The degree to which people perceive a new idea or product as superior to existing ones is:

Obervability

Compatibility

Complexity

Relative Advantage

The degree to which a new idea or product is difficult to use is:

Triability

Compatibility

Observability

Complexity

The degree to which an idea or product's benefits or attributes can be observed, imagined or described to potential users is:

Complexity

Relative Advantage

Observability

Compatibility

The degree to which people feel a new idea or product is consistent with their present needs, values and practices is:

Compatibility

Relative Advantage

Complexity

Triability

The degree to which a new idea or product can be tried is:

Compatibility

Triability

Observability

Complexity

It is not critical for developing the organizational culture early on in the lifespan of the organization

True

False

The practice of regarding one's own cultural group as the centre of understanding and scaling all relating with others to it is called?

Multiculturalism

Ethnocentrism

Globalization

Ethnology

The perspective that beliefs and practices of any society can only be judged by the values and standards prevalent in that society is:

Ethnocentrism

Multiculturalism

Cultural Relativism

Ethnography

The marginal product revenue theorem states that:

Equilibrium is achieved where supply and demand meet in a competitive market

Margins of profit are smaller in developing contries

Margins of profit are smaller in developed countries

This theorem generates massive profit

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