MCQs- Principles of Management

Specifically for Business Studies CBSE Class 12 Students
Multiple Choice Questions of Principles of Management 

Q1:  Henry Fayol, F.W. Taylor belongs to which of the following school of management?

1. Neoclassical School
2. Modern School
3. Classical School
4. Early Perspective

Answer:  c

 

Q2:   ________ involve a series of steps to be taken to accomplish desired goals. Principles are guidelines to make decisions or actions while practicing __________.

Fill in the above Blank with the following most suitable option?

1. Values
2. Techniques
3. Programmes
4. Actions

Answer:  b

 

Q3:  While practicing principles of management ____________ cannot be neglected as the business have to fulfill social and ethical responsibility towards society.

Fill in the above Blank with the following most suitable option?

1. Values
2. Techniques
3. Programmes
4. Actions

Answer:  a

Q4:  Derivation of Principles of Management is a matter of (I)______________ and their application is a matter of _(ii)___________.

1. (I) art (ii) science
2. (I) science (ii) art
3. (I) art (ii) discipline
4. (I) discipline (ii) science

Answer:  b

Q5: “Principles help managers to take decisions while performing functions of management.”

1. True, Principles are guidelines to take actions
2. False, Functions of management are not related with Principles of Management
3. Partly True, Principles denotes cause and effect relationship which may help functions
4. False, Functions of management are just actions.

Answer:  a

Q6: The Principle of division of work is applicable to a government office where there is a diary/ dispatch clerk whose job is to receive and send mail, a data entry operator who’s task is to input data on the computer. Division of work is also applicable to limited companies where there are separate departments like productions, finance, research and development etc.

Which Quality of Principles of management is highlighted above?

1. General Guidelines
2. Universal applicability
3. Flexible
4. Contingent

Answer:  b

Q7:  The degree of concentration of authority or its dispersal depends upon the situation and circumstances of each enterprise. Principles give enough discretion to managers to adjust according to the situation.

Which Quality of Principles of management is highlighted above?

1. General Guidelines
2. Universal applicability
3. Flexible
4. Contingent

Answer:  c

Q8:  Principles of management do not provide the readymade solutions to any problem but in dealing with a situation of conflict between two departments, a manager may emphasize the primacy of the organizational goal.

Which Quality of Principles of management is highlighted above?

1. General Guidelines
2. Universal applicability
3. Flexible
4. Contingent

Answer:  a

Q9:  Employees deserve fair and just remuneration but what is just, and fair is determined by multiple factors. They include the contribution of the employee, Paying capacity of the employer, and prevailing wage rate for the occupation under consideration.

Which Quality of Principles of management is highlighted above?

1. General Guidelines
2. Universal applicability
3. Flexible
4. Contingent

Answer:  d

Q10:  Management Principles increase managerial efficiency as manager leave routine decision making to his subordinates and deal with exceptional situations which require his expertise by following the Principle of delegation.

What does the above case signify about management?

1. Meeting changing environment requirements
2. Providing managers with useful insights into the reality
3. Fulfilling social responsibility
4. Management training, education, and research

Answer:  b

 

Q11:  Which of the following statement justifies understanding of Principles of Management helps in taking scientific decisions:

1. Adherence to these principles add to knowledge and understanding of managerial situations
2. Principles emphasize logic rather than blind faith
3. Principles of management are at the core of the management theory
4. Principles are guidelines that can be modified as per the changing environment

Answer:  b

Q12:  In the words of ___________, “ ___________ means knowing exactly what you want men to do and seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way”.

Fill in the above blank with the right option.

1. Henry Fayol, Management
2. W. Taylor, Scientific Management
3. Harold Koontz, Administrative Management
4. W. Taylor, Management

Answer:  b

Q13:  Even a small production activity like loading pigs of iron into boxcars can be scientifically planned and managed. This can result in a tremendous saving of human energy as well as wastage of time and materials.

Which of the following Principle of management emphasize on the above situation?

1. Harmony does not discord
2. Science not Rule of Thumb
3. Initiative
4. Development of each person to his or her greatest efficiency and prosperity

Answer:  b

Q14:   As per Cooperation, Not Individualism principle of management, Competition should be replaced with___________

1. Coordination
2. Cooperation
3. Management
4. Harmony

Answer:  b

Q15:  Which of the following statements justifies the Principle of Cooperation, not Individualism.

1. Management and workers should transform their thinking towards each other
2. There should be an equal division of work between Management and workers
3. Industrial efficiency depends to a large extent on personnel competencies
4. There is only one best method to maximize efficiency

Answer:  b

Q16:  Which of the following technique of Scientific Management is a violation of Unity of Command.

1. Differential piece wage system
2. Fatigue study
3. Functional Foremanship
4. Simplification of work

Answer:  c

Q17:  Which of the following technique of scientific management has the objective to determine the number of workers to be employed:  frame suitable incentive schemes and determine labor cost.

1. Differential piece wage system
2. Time study
3. Functional Foremanship
4. Simplification of work

Answer:  b

Q18:  According to Taylor there can be many hindrances in a good performance which may lead to fatigue. Identify the most suitable cause of Fatigue among the following options.

1. Long working hours
2. Doing unsuitable work
3. Non-cordial relation with boss
4. All the above

Answer:  d

Q19:  ________ among the following was the first to identify four functions of management.

1. Henry Fayol
2. W. Taylor
3. Max Weber
4. Harold Koontz

Answer:  a

 

Q20:  Fayol ‘s Principle of Division of work can be applied to the following kind of Work.

1. Technical
2. Managerial
3. Both
4. None of these

Answer:  c

Q21:” Authority is undermined, discipline is in jeopardy, order disturbed, and stability threatened”.

The above statement is a violation of one of the principles of management.

1. Unity of direction
2. Discipline
3. Unity of command
4. Stability of personnel

Answer:  c

Q22:  Which of the following is the most suitable example for the principle of Centralization and Decentralization’

1. A manager should not fall into the temptation of misusing his / her powers for personal gains
2. Panchayats in India have been given more powers to decide to spend fund for the welfare of people of their village
3. The company has a suggestion box system to encourage suggestions from employees
4. Personnel should be given a reasonable time to show results

Answer:  b

Q23:  The contribution of Fayol and Taylor are _________ to each other.

1. Competitive
2. Cooperative
3. Complimentary
4. Coordinated

Answer:  c

Q24:  General theory of Administration is the Expression of:

1. W. Taylor
2. Henry Fayol
3. Max Weber
4. F.L. Brech

Answer:  b

Q25:  How are principles of management are formed?

1. By rule of Thumb
2. BY observation and experimentation
3. By experiences of customers
4. By experiments in Science laboratory

Answer:  b