Chapter 7 Practice Quiz

The Labour of Technology
. ________ is often referred to as scientific management.

. From the standpoint of business owners, scientific management improved ________.

. A major consequence of scientific management for workers was _________.

. ________ was NOT a result of the implementation of the moving assembly line into the production process.

. Three key features of networked organizations are ________.

. ICTs in networked organizations have been found to ________.

. ________ is a variant of Marxist social theory with an emphasis on workers' ability to self-organize with the aim of creating changes in the workplace and throughout society at large.

. Bell (1973) characterized the post-industrial society as consisting of three core elements, one of them being ________.

. Lazarrato's concept of immaterial labour describes two different kinds of such labour: one involving white-collar workers involved in information-related tasks, and the other related to ________.

. Someone who is acting as a prosumer might do the following:

. The platform or sharing economy primarily makes money from ________.

. ________ is NOT an example of an information commons.

. Involvement in produsage communities is NOT motivated by ________.

. Produsage is characterized by ________.

. When Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, his Wikipedia page ________.

. The most fundamental principle guiding participation in Wikipedia is ________.

. The potential benefits of gig work and e-Lancing include all but the following ________.

. Nominal fees might be paid in a makerspace in order to ________.

. Which of the following types of work is a good example of crowdwork?

. Workers had no concerns with the changes to their workflows brought about by scientific management.

. Scientific management led to the development of mass production techniques by streamlining work processes.

. The second successful mass-produced consumer good was Ford's Model-T in 1908.

. Hierarchical organizations are the most prevalent form of management.

. There are no major cons to consider when thinking of the functionality of the networked organization.

. Using technology for personal reasons at work is always a negative thing, and supervisors should never permit workers to have access to cellphones while on shift.

. With regards to changes in organizational structure, the results show that the effect of technology is unidirectional, almost always resulting in decentralized decision-making and the increased involvement of peripheral actors in the network.

. The move away from manufacturing toward a service or information economy is often described as post-industrial.

. A second kind of immaterial labour consists of the processes and activities behind trying to market a given product, idea, or service and make it appealing to people who might buy it.

. Microcelebrities are able to gain popularity without a high amount of immaterial labour, self-disclosure, or engagement with followers.

. Bruns's model of produsage is composed of four leading principles.

. In adhocracy, individuals or teams are assembled as they are needed to solve narrowly defined short-term problems instead of having permanently assigned roles and functions.

. Produsage communities do not follow strict hierarchies and do not require any regulation in order to operate.

. Individual team members working on a produsage product often receive low wages or no wages, and remain involved because of personal satisfaction gained by doing the work.

. Gig workers on contracts in the sharing economy typically do not receive the same wages, rights, and benefits as employees or workers in traditional industries.

. In the industrial society, workers still had some agency over their work, but in the post-industrial society workers have lost all agency.

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