Management
1. The word “management” derives its origin from a Greek
work ……………..
(a) Monos
(b) Konos
(c) Nomos
(d) Lomos
2. ………….. state that management means, “Getting things
done through and with people”.
(a) James
(b) Koontz and O’Donnell
(c) Haimann
(d) Henry Fayol
3. According to ……………., “to manage is to forecast, and to
plan, to organize to command, to coordinate and to
command”
(a) Haimann
(b) Koontz and O’Donnell
(c) Hick
(d) Henry Fayol
4. …………….. observes that, “management is the function of
getting things done through people and directing the efforts
of individuals towards a common objective”.
(a) Haimann
(b) Koontz and O’Donnell
(c) Hick
(d) Henry Fayol
5. Hick defines management as “the process of getting things
done by the ………..and through the ……………”.
(a) People, manager
(b) People, employee
(c) People, people
(d) Manager, people
6. Koontz & d O’Donnell state that management means,
“Getting things done ………… people”.
(a) Through
(b) With
(c) For the
(d) Through and with
7. According to Henry Fayol, “to manage is …………, to
organize to command, to coordinate and to command”
(a) To forecast
(b) To plan
(c) To budget, and to control
(d) To forecast, and to plan
8. Haimann observes that, “management is the function of
………….”.
(a) Getting things done through people
(b) Directing the efforts of individual towards a common
objective
(c) Of forecast, and to plan, to organize to command
(d) (a) and (b)
9. To a very large extent the success of an organization is
dependent on its ……………..
(a) Raw material supplier
(b) Management
(c) Promoter
(d) None of above
10. Importance of management ……………..
(a) It arranges the factors of production, assembles and
organizes the resources
(b) It utilizes all the physical & human resources
productively
(c) It gets maximum results through minimum input by
proper planning and by using minimum input
(d) All of above
11. Importance of management: ……………….
(a) It enables the organization to survive in changing
environment
(b) It improves standard of living and increases the profit
which is beneficial to business and society
(c) Management fills up various positions with right
persons, having right skills, training and qualification
(d) All of above
12. Which of the following is exact science?
(a) Physics
(b) Chemistry
(c) Mathematics
(d) All of above
13. Which of the following is social science?
(a) Economics
(b) Sociology
(c) Psychology
(d) All of above
14. Which of the following statement is false?
(a) Management can then well be described as a science
albeit a variable one if compared with the nature of exact
physical sciences
(b) We can have the same kind of experimentation in
management as is possible in natural sciences
(c) Management has now a theoretical base with a number
of principles relating to coordination, organization, decisionmaking and so on.
(d) All of above
15. Management is ………… science.
(a) Exact
(b) An inexact
(c) Pure
(d) Perfect
16. Management is …………… science.
(a) Developed
(b) Developing
(c) Well settled
(d) Exact
17. Management is …………..
(a) Science
(b) Art
(c) Both science and art
(d) History
18. Management is an art because of:…………..
(a) The process of management involves the use of knowhow and skills
(b) The process of management is directed towards the
accomplishment of concrete results
(c) Management is personalized in the sense that every
manager has his own approach to problems
(d) All of above
19. Management qualifies all tests of a profession except ……..
(a) Dominance of service motive
(b) Restricted entry
(c) Systematic body of knowledge
(d) Use of know-how and skills
20. Which of the following approach or its scholars believe that
clear understanding of the management theories can only
be developed by the study and analysis of cases and
comparative approach?
(a) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(b) Empirical Approach
(c) Group Behaviour Approach
(d) Decision Theory Approach
21. Scholars belonging to ……………..feel that study of
management should be based on interpersonal relations.
(a) Empirical Approach
(b) Group Behaviour Approach
(c) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(d) Decision Theory Approach
22. ………….. is termed as ‘behavioural science’, ‘leadership’
or ‘human relations’ approach by different group of
scholars.
(a) Empirical Approach
(b) Group Behavior Approach
(c) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(d) Decision Theory Approach
23. ……………. has basically centered on studying the
behavioural pattern of members and groups in an
organization.
(a) Empirical Approach
(b) Group Behaviour Approach
(c) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(d) Decision Theory Approach
24. ……………….. is concerned with the persons, or
organizational groups making the decision, or with the
analysis of the decision making process.
(a) Empirical Approach
(b) Group Behaviour Approach
(c) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(d) Decision Theory Approach
ACCOUNTS
25. Operation researches and analysis primarily belong to
group of ………….
(a) Group Behaviour Approach
(b) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(c) Empirical Approach
(d) Mathematical Approach
26. Scholars belonging to …………are of the opinion that if
planning, decision-making, organising, etc., conform to
logical processes then the same can easily and suitably be
presented in mathematical symbols.
(a) Group Behaviour Approach
(b) Mathematical Approach
(c) Interpersonal Behaviour Approach
(d) Empirical Approach
27. ……………., popularly known as the ‘founder of modern
management theory’.
(a) Frederick Taylor
(b) Luther Gulick
(c) Newmann and Summer
(d) Henry Fayol
28. Henry Fayol, the ……………. industrialist and popularly
known as the ‘founder of modern management theory’.
(a) German
(b) French
(c) Greek
(d) American
29. …………. coined the word POSDCORB
(a) Luther Gulick
(b) Newmann and Summer
(c) Henry Fayol
(d) Marshall
30. Which word did Luther Gulick coin using the initial letters of
management?
(a) POSBRD
(b) POSDCORB
(c) POSDCORBAC
(d) POCDAORB