Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Engineering Management · medium
Which level of management spends the most time on technical skills and directly supervises operative employees?
- Top management
- Middle management
- First-line (supervisory) management
- Board of directors
Answer
C. First-line (supervisory) management
Solution
Katz: technical skills matter most at lower levels; conceptual skills at the top.
More Engineering Management questions
- Which management function is most directly concerned with comparing actual performance against standards?
- In a time study, a sample of observations has a mean of 2.0 minutes and a standard deviation of 0.4 minute. How many observations are…
- A worker's observed time for a task is 1.8 minutes, and the worker is rated at 110% performance. What is the normal time?
- A job has a normal time of 2.0 minutes. With an allowance of 15%, what is the standard time? (standard time = normal time × (1 + allowance))
- A worker earns ₱120 per hour and works 46 hours in a week. Overtime beyond 40 hours is paid at 125% of the regular rate. What is the gross…
- A department of 50 employees had 60 person-days of absence in a month with 22 working days. What is the absenteeism rate?
- A company with 200 employees had 10 employees leave during the year. What is its annual employee turnover rate?
- A machine has an MTBF of 500 hours and a mean time to repair (MTTR) of 20 hours. What is its availability?
- A machine operated 2000 hours and failed 4 times. What is its mean time between failures (MTBF)?
- Two identical components, each with a reliability of 0.90, are connected in parallel (redundancy). What is the system reliability?