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Principles and Practices of Management

Sample Questions:
Section I: Subjective Questions
1.

Write any four principles of the 14 general principles of management.

2.

What do you understand by contingency approach?

3.

Write down the types of controls.

4.

What is meant by SWOT analysis?

5.

What do you understand by levels in organization?

6.

What is Management by Objectives (MBO)?

7.

What are some of the basic norms for making a career?

8.

What do you understand by the Production, Planning and Control?

Section II: Objective Questions

Multiple Choice Single Response
1.

It provides necessary information to make decision process more effective.

1] Decision support system
2] Structured decisions
3] MIS
4] Decision tree

2.

When one is not happy with the present environment, he starts thinking of change;
this is called
1] Breakthrough thinking in the present stalemate
2] Breakthrough thinking in the past stalemate
3] Breakthrough thinking in the future stalemate
4] Breakthrough thinking

3.

All partnership and public and private ltd. Companies need to get registered under

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1] Companies Act
2] Trust Act
3] Co-operative Societies Act
4] copyright Act
4.

In any organisation, action based on decisions implies

1] Joint management
2] Routine administration
3] Executive part
4] Business

5.

We establish a group and organize it, that is why we call it as

1] Organisation
2] Groups
3] company
4] Manager

6.

Maximum utilization of time is possible, if it is properly

1] Planned
2] Stores
3] Distributed
4] Observe

7.

When certain functions like finance, marketing, human resource etc. are accepted as
a specialized functional area of management, it is called
1] General Management
2] Specialised management
3] Specific management
4] Modern management

8.

According to Fielder's contingency approach to management, leaders are born not

only out of personal attributes but also because of

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1] Situations
2] Management
3] Social needs
4] Officers
9.

The objective of communication must be thought in terms of ultimate 1] Results

2] Salary
3] timing
4] Destination

10.

Practicing management means making

1] Managerial career
2] Administrative career
3] IT career
4] Career in finance

Multiple Choice Multiple Response

11.

Research and analysis helps in

1] collecting information
2] analyzing alternatives
3] Doing experiments
4] Providing resources

12.

Any company raises its capital to meet its

1] Long term needs
2] Short term needs
3] Personal needs
4] Mental satisfaction

13.

Any business is obligatory to its customers for better results in terms of

1] Quality

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2] Quantity
3] Cost
4] Presentation
14.

Human being wants to be a follower in his self-interest of

1] Survival
2] Growth
3] Pay package
4] Facilitates

15.

In big scale companies, top management

1] Manages indirectly
2] Need to depends upon lower level management for practical functions
3] financial matters with other companies
4] Manage its customers

16.

Goods producing businesses are more oriented towards

1] Design
2] Technology
3] People
4] Finance

17.

One should be sensitive not only to the deviation in product itself but also to the
1] Effectiveness
2] Desirability
3] Efficiency
4] Interpretation

18.

The result of control should be

1] Communicable
2] Actionable

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3] Possible
4] Encouraging
Fill in the Blanks
19.

We need to consider limiting factors, which are present in the environment around
organization, because it may______ accepting this alternatives.
1] Prohibit
2] Accepts
3] Changes
4] Delay

20.

To manage business, one must understand cost and _______ of links in supply
chain.
1] Quality
2] Quantity
3] Approach
4] Manpower

21.

Performance is action oriented and these actions should be ______

1] Implemented
2] Accepted
3] Resisted
4] Imported

22.

Control can be ______ in terms of tangible as well as an intangible form.

1] Evaluated
2] Standardised
3] Demands
4] Develops

23.

To promotes unity in perspectives of human beings and reducing conflicts in

organisation, one need to develop ______ in the organisation.

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1] Effective culture
2] Effective positions
3] Pay packages
4] Job descriptions
24.

The ______ helps to identify new problems with fresh perspectives.

1] Job rotation
2] Job orientation
3] New employments
4] Job exposition

25.

The statement of an outcome of a vision and conceptualization of all the

contributors is a ________.
1] Vision statement
2] Rules and regulations of a company
3] Policies of a company
4] mission

26.

Most of the quality control methods like six sigma are based on ________.
Technology.
1] Mathematical
2] Scientific
3] computer
4] statistics

27.

We establish a group and organize it; that is why we call it ________.

1] Organisation
2] Groups
3] company
4] Manager

28.

It is necessary that critical points remain ______.

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1] Unchanged
2] Changed
3] Economical
4] None of these
State True or False
29.

Reception staff need not have to receive, conduct or see off the guests and visitors
of the organisation.

30.

Material department need not have keep control on inventory levels

31.

Goals can be converted into actions without any concrete terms.

32.

Mother tongue languages encourage the formation of informal groups.

33.

Job is designed in the job description such a way, that it would provide job
satisfaction to the employees and benefits to the organisation.

34.

When you plan for longer period in future, you need to act more in present.

35.

While planning resources for the activities, cost need not have to be consider.

36.

Government, though involved in the business indirectly, cannot be treated as

stakeholder of a business.

37.

Knowledge of general management along with specialisation will prove in effective

and efficient work.

38.

In prescriptive decisions, management can decide as the problem arises and

depends upon the type of nature of problem.

Match the Following

39.

1] Targets are decided in terms of

quantity

1] Quantitative decisions

2] Decisions taken to improve quality

2] Qualitative decisions

3] Arithmetical term used to show

conversion of qualitative decision into
quantitative decision.

3] Impute

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4] Big disadvantage of this type of
decision system is that nobody takes its
responsibility.

4] Group decisions

5] DSS
6] MIS
40.

1] Each time reworks total income and

revenues for the future

1] Zero Base budget

2] Controls the activities and their

results in synchronized manner

2] Activities network control

3] Meet the need of flexibility according

to sales potentials

3] Variable budget

4] Data coupled with planning system

for controlling the activities

4] Statistical data base control

5] Systems and procedures

6] Social controls
41.

1] Investment in the machinery

1] Treat as an asset

2] This is calculated every year on

machinery

2] Depreciation

3] To operate machinery tools

3] Trained workers

4] Maintenance of equipments

4] to keep it serviceable
5] Profit and loss
6] Semi-skilled workers

42.

1] Use of technology as a tool in

management

1] Standardization of task

2] Organisational design environment

around people who work

2] Work ethics

3] Increase in goods and services due to

competitive environment

3] Better quality products

4] Management techniques used for long 4] Management fads

term solutions

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5] Longevity of management
6] Work environment