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SEMESTER - III
PRINCIPLE OF MANAGEMENT
(POM)
MCQS - 50
1. The personnel manager has delegated authority of recruitment & selection of employees at various branches to all branch managers is known as...
a) Centralization
b) Decentralization
c) Delegation
d) None of the above
2. Planned change includes all except one of the following elements...
a) Technology
b) People
c) Structure
d) Environment
3. In a change process, change actions over all except one of the following...
a) Changing
b) Unfreezing
c) Humiliating
d) Freezing
4. Which of the following form is the expression of human response to change?
a) Resistance
b) Motivation
c) Planning
d) Organizing
5. Because of which one of the following factors, do organizations resists to change...
a) Environment changes
b) Sunk cost
c) Political situation
d) Legal constraints
6. Which one of the following is not an external factor responsible for organizational change?
a) Social Changes
b) Technological changes
c) Changes in market conditions
d) Deficiency in existing organization
7. Definition of planned change is given by,
a) Philip Kotler
b) Thomas Bennis
c) Thomas Edisan
d) Kurt Lewin
8. Theory of field of forces is given by,
a) Kurt colins
b) Kurt louis
c) Newton
d) Kurt-Lewin
9. Which one of the following is not an individual factor for resistance to change?
a) Economic Reasons
b) Obsolescence of skills
c) Organization structure
d) Emotional factors
10. For overcoming resistance to change, which one of the following factor is an effort at individual level?
a) Group Dynamic
b) Leadership
c) Group contact
d) T-group training
11. Organizational change is a process of __________.
a) Solidity
b) Fluctuation
c) Stability
d) Continuity
12. Today Organizations are growing in terms of size, complexity & in geographical coverage, thereby increasing the workload of executives. In this scenario, the concept that defines the number of subordinates reporting to a manager & that indirectly specifies the number of levels of management in an organization is called...
a) Unity of command
b) Authorized of responsibility
c) Unity of direction
d) Span of control
13. Which of the following is not a single use plan?
a) Budget
b) Quota
c) Rule
d) Target
14. MBO is a result centered non specialist, operational managerial process for the effective utilization of resources by integrating the individual with the organization & organization with the environment. Which of the
following is not a step in MBO process?
a) Key Result Area
b) Planning premises
c) Matching Resources
d) Identification of alternatives
15. The process of deciding objectives of the Organization, on changes on these objectives, on the resources used to attain these objectives & the policies that are to govern the acquisitions use & disposition of these resources is called.
a) Corporate planning
b) MBO
c) Strategic planning
d) Merger
16. The sequences of various steps in planning are in such a way that they lead to the translation of idea into action by reaching to the state of establishing of sequence of activities. Which of the following is not a step in planning process?
a) Perception of opportunity
b) Planning Premises
c) Evaluation of Environment
d) Choice of alternative plans
17. A production manager of a manufacturing organization is trying to decide corrective action in order to determine how to revise the production department so that it can produce more units per & achieve the targets in a specified time. Identify the managerial function.
a) Organizing
b) Leading
c) Controlling
d) Marketing
18. If a Krishnamurthy manager, in his organization develops a new idea & gives a plan for development of a new product in his work atmosphere & explains how various roles are to be played by different people in the organization, then he is carrying out which of the given roles?
a) Liaison
b) Entrepreneur
c) Disseminator
d) Disturbance handler
19. A branch manager of manufacturing company, representing his company in press conference, is acting in which of the managerial roles laid down by Mintzberg?
a) Entrepreneur
b) Figure head
c) Spokesperson
d) Resource Allocator
20. Henry Fayol, a French industrialist, was one of the major contributions to the Mode Operational Management theory. As per his ideas management thought, Fayol stress the need of...
a) Technical activities
b) Commercial activities
c) Financial activities
d) Managerial activities
21. When we express requirement of material, labour & capital in terms of figures or statistics, it is called...
a) Balance sheet
b) Budget
c) Co-ordination
d) Goals
22. The selection & relating of facts & making & using of assumptions regarding future in the visualization & formalization of proposed activities believed necessary to achieve desired result is known as...
a) Forecasting
b) Decision Marketing
c) Planning
d) Recruitment
23. A comprehensive managerial system that integrates many key managerial activities in a systematic manner, consciously directed towards the effective & efficient achievement of organizational objectives is called...
a) Corporate Planning
b) MBO
c) Strategic Planning
d) Procedure
24. Mintzberg isolated ten Managerial roles which he believed were common to all managers, According to him, maintaining developed networks of outside contacts & informers who help him in providing information & favours, can be best described a...
a) The disseminator role
b) The liaison role
c) The entrepreneur role
d) The monitor role
25. Madhav as a manager has a good grassing power of the imagination, ‘visualizing the relationship of her business to the industry & to the larger community, able to see how the various parts of her organization depend upon one another’, In this way, Madhav is demonstrating excellent .......... skill.
a) Diagnostic
b) Technical
c) Conceptual
d) Human
26. Mr. Mohan is the most successful manager of Infosis Ltd. One of the reasons for his success is his ability to think through abstract situations. It is the ability to understand & coordinate full range of corporate objectives & activities. Which of the following skills is Mr. Menon good at...
a) Technical skills
b) Design skills
c) Conceptual skills
d) Human skills
27. Anjali is the only direct supervisor for a fourteen employees within her department. The practice of her company stipulates the employees on cave to report to her as one immediate supervisor. This concept is referred to as...
a) Unity of command
b) Spar of control
c) Departmentalization
d) Deceralisation
28. The principles of management have evolved through different schools of thought. Achieving cooperation of human beings rather than chaotic individualism is a principle of which of the following management schools of thought?
a) Modern-Operational management Theory
b) Behavioral Sciences
c) Scientific management
d) Administrative Theory
29. The kind of management that conducts the business Or affairs by standards established, by facts or truths gained through systematic observation, experiment, or reasoning is referred to as...
a) Modern-Operational management Theory
b) Behavioral Sciences
c) Systems Theory
d) Scientific management
30. Managers at different levels in the organizational hierarchy require various sets of skills. Finding rational & implementable solutions to the problems faced by the organization based on manager's proficiency in his field falls under which of the following sets of skills?
a) Technical skills
b) Human skills
C) Conceptual skills
d) Design skills
31. The three general types of managerial roles identified by Mintzberg are...
a) Interpersonal, administrative, informational.
b) Decisional, interpersonal, organizational.
c) Interpersonal, informational, decisional.
d) Interpersonal, informational, organizational.
32. When a shop foreman at a Ford Motor Co. plant orders a worker to change the way he is working in order to improve the productivity of the production line. Which principle is the foreman using?
a) Delegation
b) Authority
c) Division of work
d) Span of control
33. According to Henri Fayol business operations of an organization can be divided into six activities. Which of the following is not one of those six activities....
a) Technical
b) Security
c) Legal
d) Accounting
34. Fayol stated that...
a) Discipline is over emphasized as a need for the manager
b) The individual's interest & desire should control the goals of the organization.
c) Staff is not especially important when a strong manager is available.
d) The degree of centralization varies.
35. Division on labour...
a) Reduces efficiency
b) Affects the authority responsibility relationship
c) Increases efficiency
d) Pauses every employee to have only one boss
36. Span of control in organisation means _________
a) to be in limit by officers
b) Not to put too much control
c) To keep limited employees under authority
d) To determine the limit of the work
37. In functional organisation, each employee is given orders by ________
a) Only one officer
b) Senior officer
c) All the experts
d) General manager
38. On what base the informal organisation is framed?
a) Power & Responsibility
b) Human Relations
c) Rules
d) Laws
39. In _______ Organisation decision is taken collectively for the business by a majority.
a) Line
b) Functional
c) Staff
d) Committee
40. The first step of formation of organisation is ___________
a) Clarification of objectives
b) List of objects
c) Clarification of functions
d) List of functions
41. Management is defining as...
a) Getting things dose so that demand is fulfilled.
b) Getting things does through & with people in formally organized groups.
c) To known what actually has been produced & when should have been.
d) To works for others.
42. The founder of scientific Management movement was .....
a) Henry Fayol
b) F.W. Taylor
c) Elton Mayo
d) M.R. Follelt
43. Under the ‘Functional foremanship’ concept which of the following is not as Suggested by F. W. Taylor:-
a) Gang boss
b) Speed boss
c) Technician
d) Route clerk
44. The principle that a Subordinate should receive are be responsible to only one boss is known as...
a) Unity of command
b) Unity of direct on
c) Span of control
d) Espirit-de-corps
45. Identify the emotional factor responsible for resistance to change.
a) Fear of Unknown
b) Organizing
c) Sunk Cost
d) Staffing
46. To satisfy the need of modern times _______ organization was developed.
a) Functional
b) Line
c) Committee
d) Matrix
47. Informal Organization is based on _________
a) Human relation
b) Rules of Manager
c) Distribution of work
d) Delegation of authority
48. _________ Organization has no place in Organizational chart.
a) Formal
b) Functional
c) Informal
d) Matrix
49. ________ Organization is a shadow of Formal Organization.
a) Line
b) Committee
c) Informal
d) Matrix
50. The formation of an Organization is a _________ process.
a) Progressive
b) Slow
c) Scientific
d) Fast
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