NPTEL Course: Principles of Management
Week 2: Assignment-2
1. Contemporary approach to management describes an organization using ____________:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Mechanical approach
Fragmented approach
Systems approach
Mechanical and behavioural approach
Answer: Systems approach
2. One of the reasons why studying the evolution of management is important is:
a) To remember the dates and to chart timelines
b) To understand the relationship of evolution of perspectives with contextual
factors
c) To recall the names of important thinkers
d) To discard practices of the past entirely
Answer: To understand the relationship of evolution of perspectives with contextual
factors
3. Select the thinker(s) associated with General Administrative Theory of Management:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Henry Mintzberg
F. W. Taylor
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Henri Fayol
Answer: Henri Fayol
4. Having a "standardized method of doing a job" is one of the central tenets of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Scientific Management
General Administrative Theory
Contingency Theory
Systems Theory
Answer: Scientific Management
5. Which of the following is advocated by both Scientific Management and General
Administrative Theory?
a) Initiative taking
b) Decentralized decision making
c) Division of work
d) Reporting to multiple managers
Answer: Division of work
6. Originally Hawthorne studies were done to examine the effect of ______________ on
workers' productivity:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Light
Social factors
Incentives
Shortening rest periods
Answer: Light
7. Which management perspective advocates that "jobs should be meaningful"?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Classical perspective
Behavioural perspective
Quantitative perspective
Both classical and quantitative perspective
Answer: Behavioural perspective
8. Weber in his theory envisioned an organization which will be managed on ___________:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Informal basis
The basis of context
Rational basis
Micromanagement basis
Answer: Rational basis
9. Which approach focuses on decision making for complex business problems like resource
allocation, scheduling tasks etc?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Behavioural approach
Classical approach
Behavioural and Classical approach
Quantitative approach
Answer: Quantitative approach
10. "Change in one element will have an effect on the other element". Identify with which
technique/theory/approach/perspective this statement is associated:
a) Systems approach
b) Operations Research
c) Management of Bureaucratic organization
d) Need Hierarchy theory
Answer: Systems approach