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Questions Related to principles and techniques of management

Which of the following is one of the $14$ principles of management identifies by Henry Fayol?

  1. Scalar chain

  2. Innovation

  3. Efficiency

  4. Motivation


Correct Option: A

Who is regarded as the founder of modern management theory?

  1. Mice

  2. Koontz

  3. D'Dannel

  4. Henry Fayol


Correct Option: D

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

  1. Luthar Gulick

  2. Newmann

  3. Henry Fayol

  4. Frederick Taylor


Correct Option: C

How many principles of management have been suggested by the Henry Fayol?

  1. Ten

  2. Twelve

  3. Fourteen

  4. Fifteen


Correct Option: C

In the year ______, Henry Fayol published his well-known work in French entitled "Administration Industrielle et Generale" (Industrial and General Administration). 

  1. 1716

  2. 1806

  3. 1916

  4. 2006


Correct Option: C

According to Henry Fayol, "to manage is ________, to organize to command, to coordinate and to command".

  1. To forecast

  2. To plan

  3. To budget and to control

  4. To forecast and to plan


Correct Option: D

An employee shall receive orders from one senior only. This principle is known as _____________.

  1. Scalar chain

  2. Unity discipline

  3. Unity of command

  4. Unity of direction


Correct Option: C

Which of the following principle of Henry Fayol refers to superior-subordinate relations ?

  1. espirit de corps

  2. Stability of tenure of personnel

  3. Division of work

  4. Scalar chain


Correct Option: D

Miscellaneous
"Unity of command cannot exist without unity of direction, but does not flow from it". This statement was given by _____________.

  1. Henry Fayol

  2. Frederick Taylor

  3. Koontz O'Donnell

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Miscellaneous
The Principles of Unity of Command and Unity of Direction was given by _______________.

  1. W. F. Taylor

  2. Lyndall Urwick

  3. Henri Fayol

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C