CBSE Class 12 Business Studies Principles of Management MCQs Set E

Question: What was the title of the research paper written by Taylor in 1903?
a) Factory management
b) Shop management
c) Office management
d) Production management
Answer: a

Question: Under fatigue study:
a) Tiring work is given to employees
b) Employee’s movements are increased
c) Record is maintained for time consumed on employee’s work
d) Rest is given to employees during work
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following principles aims at checking the ignoring of activities?
a) Unity of command
b) Unity of direction
c) Discipline
d) All the above
Answer: b

Question: How many Principles of Management has been given by Henry Fayol?
a) 5
b) 14
c) 16
d) 20
Answer: b

Question: Which system of management talks of “complete mental change”?
a) Administrative management
b) Scientific management
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the options
Answer: b

Question: What principle of management has been given by Henry Fayol?
a) Principle of Unity of command
b) Principle of optimum production
c) Principle of using science instead of rule of thumb
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: Which management expert talked about mental revolution?
a) Fayol
b) Taylor
c) Hamman
d) None of the above
Answer: b

Question: Which of the following, according to Fayol, happens to be the meaning of the division of work?
a) Equitable division of the whole work among the persons available
b) Alloting a specific part of the whole work to every person
c) Both the above
d) None of the above
Answer: b

Question: What type of centralisation did Fayol talk about?
a) Little Centralisation
b) More Centralisation
c) Effective Centralisation
d) No Centralisation
Answer: c

Question: Out of the following which one gives more strength to research work.
a) Principles of management
b) Functions of management
c) Levels of management
d) All the above
Answer: a

Question: In which book has Henry Fayol mentioned the 14 principles of management:
a) General and industrial management
b) Principles based management
c) General management
d) Industrial management
Answer: a

Question: ‘She/he keeps machines, materials, tools etc., ready for operations by concerned workers’. Whose work is described by this sentence under functional foremanship.
a) Instruction Card Clerk
b) Repair Boss
c) Gang Boss
d) Route Clerk
Answer: c

Question: According to which principle of management, all similar activities for the fulfilment of one object must be kept under one authority.
a) Equity
b) Centralisation
c) Unity of command
d) Unity of direction
Answer: d

Question: A purchase manager of a company has to purchase 500 tonnes of raw material. Apart from the other suppliers in the market, his son also supplies that raw material. The manager purchases the raw material from the firm of his son at a rate higher than the market rate, which principle of management has been violated by this situation?
a) Unity of command
b) Unity of direction
c) Subordinating personal interest to general interest
d) Equity
Answer: c

Question: Which company did Taylor join in America in 1878 as a labourer?
a) Bethlehem Steel Works
b) American Steel Company
c) Midvale Steel Company
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: On what basis were the principles of management derived?
a) On the basis of observation
b) On the basis of experimental studies
c) On the basis of both (a) and (b)
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: ‘A proper place for everything and everything in its right place’, with which order is this statement connected as explained in the principle of order?
a) Material
b) Social
c) Both the above
d) None of the above
Answer: a

Question: What study did Taylor make to set standard time for work?
a) Time study
b) Fatigue study
c) Motion study
d) Method study
Answer: a

Question: Who is the Father of Administrative Management?
a) Taylor
b) Fayol
c) Both
d) None of the options
Answer: b

Question: Where are the principles of management applicable?
a) In the field of business
b) In the non-business field
c) In both (a) and (b)
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: What did Taylor want to standardise?
a) Material
b) Machine and Tools
c) Methods
d) All of these
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following statements best describes ‘Mental Revolution’?
a) It implies change of attitude.
b) The management and workers should not play the game of one upmanship.
c) Both management and workers require each other.
d) Workers should be paid more wages.
Answer: a

Question: Henry Fayol was a
a) Social Scientist
b) Mining Engineer
c) Accountant
d) Production engineer
Answer: b

Question: Which of the following is NOT a Principle of management given by Taylor?
a) Science, not rule of the Thumb
b) Functional foremanship
c) Maximum not restricted output
d) Harmony not discord
Answer: b

Question: What type of revolutionary change is talked about by F.W. Taylor?
a) Green Revolution
b) White Revolution
c) Mental Revolution
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following statements best describes the principle of ‘Division of Work’?
a) Work should be divided into small task
b) Labour should be divided
c) Resources should be divided among jobs
d) It leads to specialisation
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following system of management talks about cheap and efficient way of doing a job?
a) Administrative
b) Scientific
c) Both the above
d) None of the above
Answer: b

Question: The violation of which principle of management results in ‘disorderly flow of information’?
a) Scalar Chain
b) Unity of Command
c) Authority and Responsibility
d) Stability of employees
Answer: a

Question: Management should find ‘One best way’ to perform a task. Which technique of Scientific management is defined in this sentence?
a) Time Study
b) Motion Study
c) Fatigue Study
d) Method Study
Answer: d

Question: In what two departments did Taylor divide the work of a factory manager?
a) Department of Planning and Production
b) Department of Planning and Finance
c) Department of Planning and Marketing
d) Department of Planning and Research
Answer: a

Question: Which of the following system of management gives due importance to ‘specialisation’?
a) Scientific management
b) Administrative management
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: How are principles of management formed?
a) In a laboratory
b) By experiences of managers
c) By experiences of customers
d) By propagation of social scientists
Answer: b

Question: Principles of management are NOT
a) Universal
b) Flexible
c) Absolute
d) Behavioural
Answer: c

Question: What principle of management is violated if an employee gets orders from more than one superior?
a) Unity of command
b) Unity of direction
c) Division of work
d) Scalar chain
Answer: a

Question: Scientific management brings:
a) Social change
b) Economic change
c) Mental change
d) Industrial change
Answer: c

Question: ‘Three subordinates- S1, S2 and S3 receive orders from M1’. In such a situation which principle of management is being observed?
a) Equity
b) Order
c) Unity of command
d) Unity of direction
Answer: c

Question: Which study is not done under scientific management:
a) Motion
b) Profit
c) Time
d) Fatigue
Answer: b

Question: In what situation has Fayol permitted the violation of the Principle of Scalar Chain?
a) When the employee is extraordinarily capable
b) At the time of sudden happening
c) In all conditions and circumstances
d) In no condition or situation
Answer: b

Question: What is the meaning of the universality of the principles of management?
a) Applicable to all the fields
b) Applicable no where
c) Applicable only to business
d) Applicable only to non-business field
Answer: a