Educational Administration Evaluation 1st partial

Motivation and human relations are the main focus of the ___-_________ model.

Answer explanation

Remember that with the current times, the interest in the mental and emotional well being of people has increased, productivity and other more hard factors are beginning to be delegated to machines and computers.

Choose the two that are not part of the auxiliary sciences of administration.

• Sociology

• Ergonomics

• Accounting

• Economics

Answer explanation

Ergonomics and Accounting are considered Disciplines not Sciences.

It is concerned with the optimization of human interactions and work efficiency

• Sociology

• Ergonomics

• Discipline

• Psychology

____________ studies the evolution of the human being, its society and culture.

• Sociology

• Psychology

• Political science

• Anthropology

• History

Answer explanation

Each of these studies different aspects of the human being and how we function.

This is true for the Formal style of management:

• Rules and structure must be followed over everything else.

• What guides it are the factions and transactions between them.

• The leader is the main force and survival of the team is key.

• The observation and productivity are the major focus.

Answer explanation

Each answer holds some degree of truth, but the Formal style demands, as the name suggests, formality and proper acting to each situation.

In the Subjective style of management:

• The leader is the main force and survival of the team is key.

• The ideals and values of the current members dictate the course of the group.

• The individuals in the group are the ones that exercise control.

• Nothing matters more than everyone sharing the same ideas.

Answer explanation

Subjective style must not be confused with the cultural style. The first one is about each person doing what they think is best, the latter is about sharing one same idea of what is best.

In the Political style:

• What guides it are the factions and transactions between them.

• A council makes decisions trying to be transformative and participative.

• The ideals and values of the current members dictate the course of the group.

• Controversial ideas are a source of conflict.

Answer explanation

Remember that politics divide people in groups according to their relationships and ideas.

Science is:

• The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the world through experimentation and observation.

• The methodical approach to the study of specific aspects of a science.

• The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these.

• The subjective perspective of a group of people and their believes.

Answer explanation

Read carefully each of the answers, even if they seem to say the same at first glance, key words will tell you what is the correct one.

Economics:

• Is a science that focuses on the recording, controlling and analyzing incomes and expenses.

• Is concerned with the role of society in the production, consumption and transfer of resources.

• Measures quantities making use of numbers and equations.

• Is a discipline that focuses on the recording, controlling and analyzing incomes and expenses.

Answer explanation

Economics is much more than just money and similar credit currencies, all resources are part of this science.

______ ________ are the ones that study living beings using intangibles and experiments that can't be reproduced perfectly.

Answer explanation

Since these sciences take into account the human aspect as the main focus, it is increasingly more difficult to replicate one same exact result due to our own diversity as individual and its contradiction of the many characteristics that makes us equal.