Introduction to principles of management

Efficiency is ------------------------------------------
a. Doing things right
b. Doing the right things

Controlling function involves
a. monitoring performance of the employees;
b. Actual performance gets compared with the set goals
c. corrective measures being taken to get back on track
d. all of the above.

Classical approach came during
a. 3000 B.C to 2500 B.C
b. 1960-present
c. 1911-1947
d. 1940-1960

What is the guiding principle of scientific management?
a) Experimentation
b) Fluid working relationships
c) Freedom of association
d) One best way to do a job

The first studies of management, i.e. the classical approach emphasized
a. Rationality
b. Making organizations and workers as efficient as possible
c. Both a and b above

. Behavioral approaches (1700-1950) involve
a. Contingency approach
b. Hawthorne Studies
c. Organizational Behavior
d. A and B above
e. B and C above

The time spent on technical activities is usually greatest at the --------managerial level:
a. top
b. middle
c. first-line
d. all of these.

Principles 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 whose task is to input data on the computer. Division of work is also applicable to limited company where there are separate departments like productions, finance, research and development etc. Which quality of Principles of management is highlighted above?

a. General guidelines
b. Universal applicability
c. Flexible
d. Contingent