Father of Modern Management Reading Answers
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Father of Modern Management
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27, which are based on the Reading Passage below.
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Answers
The answers to questions 14-27 are given below along with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | i | range of his influence extraordinary, grapple, tricky management problems, you can find Drucker’s fingerprints. | Para A, last 3 lines |
| 15 | v | His first two books – The End of Economic Man (1939) and The Future of Industrial Man (1942) | Para B, line 1 |
| 16 | ix | The second argument, rise of knowledge workers | Para C, lines 6-7 |
| 17 | vi | rely too much on empowerment, anarchy, command-and-control, sacrifice creativity | Para D, lines 8-10 |
| 18 | ii | There are three persistent criticisms of Drucker’s work | Para E, line 1 |
| 19 | viii | importance, knowledge workers, empowerment, banal today, weren’t banal, in the 1940s, first put into practice, 1980s, produce new ideas, 90s, work, management, organisations, cutting edge. | Para F, last 5 lines |
| 20 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 21 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 22 | TRUE | Drucker believed in treating workers as resources rather than just as costs | Para C, lines 3-4 |
| 23 | FALSE | Drucker’s pioneering role in creating the modern profession of management | Para F, line 5 |
| 24 | A | Managers, stop treating workers like cogs, huge inhuman machine, start treating them, brain workers | Para C, lines 10-11 |
| 25 | E | emphasised, importance, managers, setting, long-term objectives, translating, immediate goals | Para D, lines 3-5 |
| 26 | A | The first is that he focused on big organisations rather than small ones | Para F, first 2 lines |
| 27 | C | Drucker’s enthusiasm for management by objectives | Para E, lines 6-7 |
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