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Questions Related to organization of commerce and management

The matrix approach violates what classical principle?

  1. Unity of command

  2. Decentralization

  3. Customer focus

  4. Linear lines of responsibility


Correct Option: A

Delegation of authority makes the size of the organization ______.

  1. Smaller

  2. Larger

  3. Very big

  4. It does not affect the size of the organization


Correct Option: B

Authority, discipline, unity of command and unity of direction are ________.

  1. Taylor's four principles of management

  2. principles of the human relations movement

  3. elements of Webs ideal bureaucratic structure

  4. four of Fayol's fourteen principles of management


Correct Option: D

Superior - Subordinate theory was given by _______.

  1. Henry Fayol

  2. V. A. Graicunas

  3. Koontz 0' Donnel

  4. Joseph Jecard


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  1. Specialization of labour
    2. Authority and responsibility
    3. Discipline
    4. Unity of command
    5. Unity of direction
    6. Subordination of individual interest to the general interest
    7. Remuneration of staff:
    8. Centralisation
    9. Scalar chain/line of authority: Formal chain of command running from top to bottom of the organization. It refers to superior-subordinate relations 
    10. Order:
    11. Equity
    12. Stability of tenure
    13. Initiative
    14. Esprit de corps

The principals of unity of command and unity of direction was given by _______.

  1. W.F. Taylor

  2. Lyndall Urwick

  3. George Tenny

  4. Henry foyol


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Henry Fayol gave the 14 principles of management
1. Specialization of labour
2. Authority
3. Discipline
4. Unity of command
5. Unity of direction
6. Subordination of individual interest to the general interest
7. Remuneration of staff:
8. Centralisation
9. Scalar chain/line of authority: Formal chain of command running from top to bottom of the organization. It refers to superior-subordinate relations
10. Order
11. Equity
12. Stability of tenure
13. Initiative
14. Esprit de corps

Who is regarded as the founder of modem management theory?

  1. Mice

  2. Koontz

  3. D'Dannel

  4. Henry Fayol


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is not one of the five elements of management?

  1. Planning

  2. Co-ordination

  3. Centralization

  4. Command


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is the most important function of communication in organizations?

  1. Motivation

  2. Control

  3. Information

  4. All of these factors are important


Correct Option: D

According to Henry Fayol,"to manage is ______, to organise to command, to coordinate and to command".

  1. to forecast

  2. to plan

  3. to budget to control

  4. to forecast and to plan


Correct Option: D

Who is popularly known as the 'founder of modern management theory?

  1. Frederick Taylor

  2. Luther Gulick

  3. Newmann and Summer

  4. Henry Fayol


Correct Option: D