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Q1: What involves determining and grouping activities and resources in the most appropriate manner?
a. Directing
b. Organising
c. Controlling
d. Planning
Answer
b. Organising
Q2: According to the —–, management is a group activity that intends to achieve individual goals of the group as well as organisational goals.
a. Traditional viewpoint
b. Modern viewpoint
c. 7Ms viewpoint
d. 4Ps viewpoint
Answer
b. Modern viewpoint
Q3: Henri Fayol is a —– mining engineer.
a. Roman
b. Italian
c. French
d. Persian
Answer
c. French
Q4: In controlling the actual —– is measured against the desired output
a. Output
b. Profit
c. Result
d. Goals
Answer
a. Output
Q5. Political forces can be in the form of social norms arising from the values and beliefs of people in a society.
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q6. Which approach of management was developed in 1800-1930?
a. Division of work
b. Henri Fayol
c. Classical Approach
d. None of these
Answer
c. Classical Approach
Q7. _______________ is also known as Taylorism.
a. Administrative management
b. Bureaucratic management
c. Scientific management
d. Traditional management
Answer
c. Scientific management
Q8. According to which principle, work should be divided among individuals and groups according to their skills and knowledge?
a. Division of work
b. Henri Fayol
c. Yes
d. None of these
Answer
a. Division of work
Q9. Who presented 14 principles of management?
a. Yes
b. Just in time
c. Henri Fayol
d. None of these
Answer
c. Henri Fayol
Q10. Time and motion study is one of the important traits of bureaucratic management.
a. True
b. False
Answer
b. False
Q11. Is the system approach a modern approach?
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q12. Who developed the concept of profit sharing and participative decision making?
a. Max Weber
b. Charles Babbage
c. George E. Mayo
d. Robert Owen
Answer
b. Charles Babbage
Q13. Contribution of Henry Laurence Gantt:
a. Task and bonus plan
b. Scientific management
c. Programmable computer
d. Human relations approach
Answer
a. Task and bonus plan
Q14. In charismatic organisations, managerial positions are handed down from one generation to the other irrespective of intelligence, knowledge, and experience.
a. True
b. False
Answer
b. False
Q15. Hawthorne studies were conducted to find the relation between physical environment and workers’ output.
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q16. Name the philosophy of continuous improvement, wherein unused or waste resources are identified and removed.
a. Motorola
b. Just in time
c. TQM
d. None of these
Answer
b. Just in time
Q17. In 5S, which of the following refers to organising the work area in such a manner that all the unnecessary items are eliminated?
a. Seiri
b. Seiton
c. Seiso
d. Seiketsu
Answer
a. Seiri
Q18. Name the organisation that developed Six Sigma for improving processes.
a. Ford
b. Honda
c. Motorola
d. None of these
Answer
c. Motorola
Q19. What does 7Ms stand for in the 7 Ms viewpoint on management?
a. 7 Ms are men, machine, material, money, methods, market, and motive
b. 7 Ms are material, monopoly, material, money, methods, marketing, and motivation
c. 7 Ms are men, monopoly, mars, money, methods, marketing, and motivation
d. None of these
Answer
a. 7 Ms are men, machine, material, money, methods, market, and motive
Q20. What are the two important aspects of successful management?
a. Management and service
b. Quality and Quantity
c. Efficiency and effectiveness
d. None of these
Answer
c. Efficiency and effectiveness
Q21. Management is required by individuals in every aspect be it their personal or professional lives. What nature of management does it reflect?
a. Art
b. Management is universal
c. Planning
d. None of these
Answer
b. Management is universal
Q22. Management is an on-going process that is performed by managers at all levels in an organisation.
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q23. _______________ is defined as a system of doing something in an organised manner.
a. Service
b. Product
c. ART
d. None of these
Answer
c. ART
Q24. What is a forward-looking function of management?
a. Planning
b. Staffing
c. Organizing
d. None of these
Answer
a. Planning
Q25. ___________ involves employing an efficient pool of people.
a. Agency
b. Location
c. Staffing
d. None of these
Answer
c. Staffing
Q26. What are the steps of the control function?
a. Social responsive approach steps of control functions
b. The main steps of the control function include establishing performance standards, measuring the actual performance, determining gaps between set standards and achieved standards, and taking corrective measures
c. Establishing performance measuring steps
Answer
b. The main steps of the control function include establishing performance standards, measuring the actual performance, determining gaps between set standards and achieved standards, and taking corrective measures
Q27. What does CSR stand for?
a. Corporate Social Resources
b. Corporate Social Responsibility
c. Corporate Society Responsibility
d. Care Social Responsibility
Answer
b. Corporate Social Responsibility
Q28. ____________ approach works actively to deal with social needs and problems.
a. Forecasting
b. Code of conduct
c. Social responsive approach
d. None of these
Answer
c. Social responsive approach
Q29. Administration and management are closely related.
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q30. In the view, administration is different from management; ________is a higher level activity, while ____________ is a lower level function.
a. Function, Quality
b. Code of conduct, Quality
c. Culture, Services
d. None of these
Answer
Administration, Management
Q31. ______________involves rules and regulations for guiding the behaviour of individuals.
a. Corporate culture
b. Tompenaar
c. Code of conduct
d. None of these
Answer
c. Code of conduct
Q32. Profession does not have any formalised methods of acquiringmtraining and experience.
a. True
b. False
Answer
b. False
Q33. “Organisational culture is the distinctive norms, beliefs, principles and ways of behaving that combine to give each organisation its distinct character”. Identify the speaker of these words.
a. Edgar Schien
b. Arnold
c. Hofstede
d. Trompenaar
Answer
a. Edgar Schien
Q34. ___________ defines the standard code of conduct for employees in an organisation by providing a set of norms, processes, policies, rules, and regulations.
a. Tompenaar
b. Corporate culture
c. Avoiding
d. None of these
Answer
b. Corporate culture
Q35. Name the theorist who provided seven cultural dimensions?
a. Avoiding
b. Manager
c. Tompenaar
d. None of these
Answer
c. Tompenaar
Q36. In which type of culture, a leader takes all decisions on behalf of a group/organisation?
a. Mechanistic culture
b. Authoritarian culture
c. Organic culture
d. Subculture
Answer
b. Authoritarian culture
Q37. The values of an organisation hold no relevance unless they are incorporated in practices.
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q38. Sometimes people belonging to one culture stereotype people from different cultural backgrounds.
a. True
b. False
Answer
a. True
Q39. What type of conflict arises between a manager and his/her subordinates on various issues?
a. Vertical conflict
b. Lateral conflict
c. Diagonal conflict
d. Horizontal conflict
Answer
a. Vertical conflict
Q40. In which technique, people avoid conflicts by simply changing the topic or denying any situation that may lead to a problem?
a. Avoiding
b. Manager
c. Performance management
d. None of these
Answer
a. Avoiding
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