BUSINESS MANAGEMENT-OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1.     Which of the following principles of management explain that each group of activities with the same objectives must have one head and one plan?

a)                       Scalar Chain

b)                      Unity of Command

c)                       Unity of Direction

d)                      Authority and Responsibility

2.     Planning of the organization with suitable personnel is known as –

a)                       Organizing Function

b)                      Directing Function

c)                       Co-coordinating Function

d)                      Staffing Function

3.     A process of evaluating results against pre-determined standards correcting the deviation is known as –

a)                       Directing

b)                      Coordinating

c)                       Controlling

d)                      Planning

4.     Which principle of management emphasis replacement of rule of thumb?

a)                       Decision theory

b)                      Administrative theory

c)                       Scientific management theory

d)                      Contingency theory

5.     Which of the following school considers management is wider concept than the administration?

a)                       British School

b)                      American School

c)                       Process School

d)                      Decision School

6.     The obligation to carryout the task and bear the responsibility in terms the standards establish and specified is known as –

a)                       Responsibility

b)                      Division of work

c)                       Accountability

d)                      Authority

7.     The lack of faith and confidence of managers in subordinate is an important barriers –

a)                       Effective Leadership

b)                      Effective Control

c)                       Effective Delegation

d)                      Effective Direction

8.     The number of subordinates a superior can effectively handle is called –

a)                       Organizing people

b)                      Span of control

c)                       Co-ordination

d)                      Direction

9.     “Management by objectives (M.B.O.) is not only a technique of management but is philosophy of management”.  Who said it?

a)                       F.W. Taylor

b)                      Chester Bernard

c)                       Peter Drucker

d)                      Henry Fayol

10.      “Espirit De Corps” principle was enunciated by-

a)                       Ernest Dale

b)                      R.C. Davis

c)                       Henry Fayol

d)                      Peter F. Drucker

11.      Influence and power dominates in –

a)                       Formal Organization

b)                      Informal Organization

c)                       Functional Organization

d)                      Project Organization

12.      Which of the following is not an element of planning?

a)                       Program

b)                      Procedure

c)                       Policy

d)                      Information

13.      Extreme of decentralization is called –

a)                       Bottom of management

b)                      Autonomy

c)                       Departmentalization

d)                      Leaderless management

14.      “Sensitivity Training” is a function of –

a)                       Planning

b)                      Directing

c)                       Leadership

d)                      Staffing

15.      The process of deligation is –

a)                       Top down

b)                      Bottom up

c)                       Horizontal

d)                      Circular

16.      Principal of parity of authority and responsibility is related to –

a)                       Decentralization

b)                      Delegation

c)                       Divisionalization

d)                      Autonomy

17.      Which of the following statement is not true?

a)                       An alternative course of action is discovered

b)                      Conscious course of action is discovered

c)                       Present action can be adjusted to future goal

d)                      Organizational goal is achieved

18.      The general statement or understanding the guide is planning and decision making called –

a)                       Policy

b)                      Procedure

c)                       Rule

d)                      System

19.      “Any organization in order to achieve its objectives should form its organization structure based in activity analysis, decision analysis and relation analysis” is the view of –

a)                       Koontz and O’Donnel

b)                      Peter Drucker

c)                       Mary Cushing Niles

d)                      Albers

20.      “Authority is the right to give orders and power to extract obedience”.  The statement is –

a)                       Taylor

b)                      Fayol

c)                       McFarland

d)                      George Terry

21.      “Human Resource Development in Modern Management is a wider term than the word staffing”.  The statement is –

a)                       True

b)                      False

c)                       No relation

d)                      Identical

22.      Direction’ is a wider term and which includes also –

a)                       Organization

b)                      Delegation

c)                       Leadership

d)                      Contingency

23.      The effective principles of direction does not include –

a)                       Harmony of objective

b)                      Effective leadership

c)                       Effective motivation

d)                      Personality

24.      The number of subordinates a superior a effectively handle is called –

a)                       Co-operation

b)                      Co-ordination

c)                       Span of Control

d)                      Supervision

25.      Co-ordination contributes to efficiency by blending the loose ends of highly specialized efforts”.  Who said it?

a)                       McFarland

b)                      Terry

c)                       Peter Drucker

d)                      Simon

Answer Key

1. (a)  2. (d)  3. (c)  4. (c)  5. (a)  6. (a)  7. (c)  8. (b)  9. (c)  10. (c)

11. (b)           12. (d)           13. (b)           14. (d)           15. (a)            16. (b)           17. (a)            18. (a)       19. (b)           20. (d)

21. (a)            22. (a)            23. (d)           24. (c)            25. (a)