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Question The following are the elements of control
Correct Answer authority and knowledge , guidance and direction , constraint
and restraint
Your Answer authority and knowledge , guidance and direction , constraint
and restraint
, comparison and correctiveness
Select The Blank
Question A superior should always establish a ________ control so that his
subordinates report to him periodically.
Correct Answer Feedback
Your Answer Feedback
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Question Which type of strategies do professional managers help
organizations in
chalking out?
Correct Answer corporate
Your Answer multi-
True/False
Question Deontological ethics believe that mature persons have inadequate
capacity to reason.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True
True/False
Question Management exists only at the top levels of the organization.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False
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Question Name the leading ad agencies in India that have a separate event
section.
Correct Answer Vigennet , Ogilvy , Mathers
Your Answer Vigennet , Ogilvy , Mathers
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Question What would be the percentage of equity participation under the
rules
governing foreign companies?
Correct Answer 0.26
Your Answer 0.26
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Question Frederic W.Taylor's middle name is ________.
Correct Answer Winslow
Your Answer Winslow
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Question ________ means draw prior conclusions about the probables of
production, sales, profits in the future, on the basis of research.
Correct Answer Forecasting
Your Answer Forecasting
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Question Limitation of control are
Correct Answer external factors , fixing of responsibility , variation and
its causes
Your Answer external factors , internal factors , fixing of responsibility
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Question The various tools employed by the companies to improve and sustain
employee morale
Correct Answer building of responsibility , rotation of jobs , job
enrichment
Your Answer retention of authority , building of responsibility , rotation
of jobs , job
enrichment
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Question International consultancy is said to be
Correct Answer Glamorous , Challenging , Trendy
Your Answer Glamorous , Trendy , Reliant
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Question MBO was invented by ________.
Correct Answer Peter Drucker
Your Answer Peter Drucker
Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer
Potential external
opportunities
Complacency among rival
firms
Complacency among rival
firms
BPR Business process
reengineering
Business process
reengineering
TQM Total quality management Total quality management
Potential internal strengths A distinctive competence A distinctive
competence
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Question Who said, "Management is the creation and maintenance of internal
environment in an enterprise, where individuals working in groups can
perform efficiently and effectively towards the attainment of gr
Correct Answer Koontz & O 'Donell
Your Answer Koontz & O 'Donell
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Question Some of the management functions mentioned by Henry Fayol are :
Correct Answer Planning , Control , Co-
Your Answer Planning , Control , Co-
True/False
Question The unorganized sector is mainly concentrated in metropolitan
cities.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False
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Question Some managements who are very much intimated by consulting firms,
what are they likely to loose
Correct Answer Confidence
Your Answer Confidence
Select The Blank
Question ________ provide all types of help required to make the business
more
efficient and profitable.
Correct Answer Consultants
Your Answer Consultants
True/False
Question Demand forecast is one of the popular forecasts.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
True/False
Question Communication is a composite (a) information given and received (b)
a
listening effort by some of them involved.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Some tips for improving written communication would be
Correct Answer Avoid unnecessary words , Use simple words and phrases , Use
short and
familiar words
Your Answer Avoid unnecessary words , Use simple words and phrases , Use
short and
familiar words
True/False
Question The theory of Bureaucracy was first propounded by Henry L.Gantt.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False
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Question In which type of income class, does the insurance sector have to
face the
challenge of making insurance a buying priority?
Correct Answer lower-
Your Answer lower-
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Question The different kinds of relationships for selecting the span of
control would
be :
Correct Answer One to one , Cross relationship , Direct group
Your Answer One to one , Cross relationship , Direct group
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Management is said to be the combination of three factors, arts,
science
and the third is
Correct Answer profession
Your Answer profession
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Question Functional authority works only when,
Correct Answer Assignment is clarified , The subordinates are allowed to
participate ,
Feedback control is established
Your Answer Assignment is clarified , The subordinates are allowed to
participate ,
Feedback control is established
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Question The fundamental objective of corporate governance is essentially
Correct Answer enhancement of long term shareholder value
Your Answer protecting the interest of other shareholders
True/False
Question Policy is supposed to be immutable, unchanging and eternal.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
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Question A procedure has the following advantages
Correct Answer ensures uniformity of action , increases co-
provides good
standard for the manage
Your Answer ensures uniformity of action , increases co-
provides good
standard for the manage
True/False
Question Management is always defined as dynamic, universal, ever-
subject.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
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Question Under principle of effective communication what should be fully
understood by all concerned.
Correct Answer tasks , policies , responsibilities
Your Answer tasks , policies , responsibilities
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Question One of the popular forecast is
Correct Answer Demand
Your Answer Demand
Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer
Kautilya Conception of administration
and management
Political, Social and Economic
Management of state
Swami Vivekananda Political, Social and
Economic Management of
state
Divine power to face
challenges
Samartha Ramdas Setting goals and
accomplishing it.
Conception of administration
and management
King Akbar Creator of social progress
and prosperity
Setting goals and
accomplishing it.
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Question Costliness of the ________ is the overriding factor determining the
extent
of decentralization.
Correct Answer Decision
Your Answer Staffing
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Question What is essential for the management to get things done in the
organization?
Correct Answer Delegation
Your Answer Delegation
True/False
Question Indian companies because of confused status have lacked
selfconfidence.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
Select The Blank
Question Charles Babbage built the first prototype of modern ________.
Correct Answer Computers
Your Answer Computers
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Question Consultants must conduct diagnosis to redefine ________.
Correct Answer Problem
Your Answer Problem
True/False
Question Lower level managers need EQ most.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True
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Question Companies seeking to improve have taken a plethora of initiatives
such as
Correct Answer TQM
Your Answer TQM
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Question Some of the limitations of business planning are
Correct Answer Time Consuming , Expensive device , Heavy cost of planning
Your Answer Time Consuming , Expensive device , Heavy cost of planning
Select The Blank
Question Events are occurrences designed for ________ interests.
Correct Answer marketing
Your Answer marketing
Select The Blank
Question Positive motivation makes people willing to do their work in the
best way
they can and improve their ________.
Correct Answer performance
Your Answer productivity
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Question To which practice is the term "corporate governance" given?
Correct Answer Management
Your Answer Management
Select The Blank
Question Under the types of motivators, non-
encouragement, freedom ________.
Correct Answer recognition
Your Answer recognition
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Question What criterion is that which the SBU must meet which is neither too
large nor
too small?
Correct Answer Proper size
Your Answer Proper size
True/False
Question Emotional distress shrinks working memory.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
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Question In addition to Place, Labor and Money which other internal
environment
Factor influences Management?
Correct Answer Machines
Your Answer Machines
True/False
Question Before 1990, Global players were allowed to enter and operate in
Indian
Market.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False
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Question Name the department which plays a major role in developing a
learning
organization
Correct Answer MIS
Your Answer MIS
Select The Blank
Question Span of control is also referred to as the span of ________.
Correct Answer Supervision
Your Answer Supervision
Select The Blank
Question Managerial function of control is the ________ and correction of
performance
of various activities.
Correct Answer measurement
Your Answer measurement
True/False
Question Lower level managers need EQ most.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True
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Question Under the role of management consultant, consultant acts as a
Correct Answer Motivator , Leader , Counselor
Your Answer Motivator , Leader , Counselor
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Question The concept of corporate governance has been attracting________in
India.
Correct Answer public attention
Your Answer public attention
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Question A business unit must meet specific criteria, if it wants to be
called an SBU.
These are
Correct Answer Definable group of competitors
Your Answer Definable group of competitors
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Question Some of the limitations of business planning are
Correct Answer Time Consuming , Expensive device , Heavy cost of planning
Your Answer Time Consuming , Grievances , Expensive device
True/False
Question The 7 S Framework first appeared in 'The Art of Japanese
management' by
Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos in 1981.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Management is
Correct Answer Multidisciplinary
Your Answer Multidisciplinary
True/False
Question Management is just a list of functions.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False
True/False
Question According to Swami Vivekananda people have intuition or sacred
power to
face difficult task.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
True/False
Question Anybody can become a manager
Correct Answer True
Your Answer False
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Question In the complex new liberalized economy business families face
common
problems such as
Correct Answer Unproductive labour , Falling share value , Transnational
attach
Your Answer Unproductive labour , Falling share value , Transnational attach
Select The Blank
Question High morale is likely to be associated with superior motivation and
low
morale with ________, and a lack of drive.
Correct Answer frustration
Your Answer frustration
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Question This is a type of motivational technique training given to the
groups of
managers themselves so that they may behave with and motivate their
subordinates better.
Correct Answer Sensitivity training
Your Answer Management training
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Advantages of SBU's are
Correct Answer Quick response to environmental changes , Increased focus on
products and
market , Facilitating development of General Managers
Your Answer Quick response to environmental changes , Increased focus on
products and
market , Facilitating development of General Managers
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The experts who dealt in Behavioral Sciences are :
Correct Answer Max Weber , Vilfredo Pareto , Elton Mayo
Your Answer Vilfredo Pareto , Elton Mayo
Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer
Feature of management Management is dynamic Management is dynamic
Fundamental functions of
management
Planning, organizing,
actuating and controlling
Management is an economic
organ of industrial society
Characteristic of management Management is an endeavour
to achieve the pre-
objectives
Planning, organizing, actuating
and controlling
Scope of management Management is an interdisciplinary
approach
Management is an endeavour
to achieve the pre-
objectives
True/False
Question Focus on savings and high bargaining interests of the consumer is
an
obstacle in retail development in India.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question EQ is born largely in the neurotransmitters if the brains limbic
system that
governs
Correct Answer drives , impulses , feelings
Your Answer drives , impulses , feelings
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question David C Mc Celland identified three motives those are
Correct Answer Affiliation , Power , Achievement
Your Answer Affiliation , Power , Achievement
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Question Why do ethical problems result in dilemmas for managers?
Correct Answer because of the conflict between economic performance and
social
performance
Your Answer because of the conflict between economic performance and social
performance
True/False
Question The essence of MBO is mutual consultation, mutual understanding and
selfmotivation
to work as a part of the team to achieve objectives.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer False
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Span of management depends upon the ability of whom?
Correct Answer Employees
Your Answer Environment
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Name the industrial activity where 'Buying, selling and exchanging
takes
place'.
Correct Answer Commercial
Your Answer Commercial
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Question The characteristics of knowledge worker would be
Correct Answer egoistic , right conscious
Your Answer egoistic , right conscious
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Science is a body of which type of Knowledge?
Correct Answer Organized
Your Answer Organized
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Question Learning from mistakes is often more powerful than learning
from________.
Correct Answer Success
Your Answer Experience
Select The Blank
Question A set of actions that you start with and must maintain is also
called as
________.
Correct Answer Strategy
Your Answer Strategy
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Question What are the common challenges faced by the retail business?
Correct Answer Special mindset to develop special strategies , Coping with
the change
Your Answer The cultural aspect , Special mindset to develop special
strategies , Coping
with the change
True/False
Question Unity of command means that employees should receive orders from
one
superior only.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
Select The Blank
Question To enhance emotional intelligence, ________ must refocus their
training to
include the limbic system.
Correct Answer Organisations
Your Answer Organisations
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Question The old control techniques which were used through years are
Correct Answer Unity of policies , break-
Your Answer Unity of policies , break-
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The names of the experts who have given recent contribution to
management are:
Correct Answer William Ouchi , W.Edward Deming , Peter F.Drucker
Your Answer William Ouchi , Elton Mayo , W.Edward Deming , Peter F.Drucker
Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer
W.Edward Deming Introduced quality control in
Japan
Introduced quality control in
Japan
Henry Fayol Referred to as 'The father of
modern management theory'
Referred to as 'The father of
modern management theory'
Federick W.Taylor Referred to as 'The father of
scientific management'
Referred to as 'The father of
scientific management'
Vilfredo Pareto Referred to as 'The father of
the social systems approach'
to organization and
management
Referred to as 'The father of
the social systems approach' to
organization and management
True/False
Question Professional management signifies separation of ownership and
management
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
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Question One of the fears family owned businesses fear is the successful
planning to
the get the right person after the business ________.
Correct Answer Pioneer
Your Answer Pioneer
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Question Which of the options best describes the employment capacity of the
retailing
sector? It is the
Correct Answer second largest employer after agriculture
Your Answer second largest employer after agriculture
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Management is the combination of Arts, Science and
Correct Answer Profession
Your Answer Profession
True/False
Question Science is a body of organized knowledge.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True
Select The Blank
Question Costliness of the ________ is the overriding factor determining the
extent of
decentralization.
Correct Answer Decision
Your Answer Decision
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question The share of services in GDP changes with the economic cycle. A
cyclical
upturn would thus result in
Correct Answer Resource allocation away from the service sector
Your Answer Resource allocation towards the manufacturing sector
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Question What type of industry is consulting
Correct Answer Knowledge
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Which Indian pharma company has recently started an SBU?
Correct Answer Ranbaxy
Select The Blank
Question ________is a tool for corporate governance.
Correct Answer communication
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question What does control maintain between output and effort?
Correct Answer Equilibrium
True/False
Question Horizontal co-
Correct Answer True
Match The Following
Question Correct Answer
Who is the father of the three-
Who discovered the Expectancy theory? Vroom
What is a basic need? Food
What is an esteem need? Self-
Who propounded Theory X? McGregor
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The non-
Correct Answer encouragement , freedom , recognition
Select The Blank
Question New companies feel that________is the most
appropriate type of alliance.
Correct Answer Joint-
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question What is that the consultant must be able to recognise
about the client's future needs ?
Correct Answer Vision
Select The Blank
Question Learning organizations are adaptive to
their________environment
Correct Answer external
Match The Following
Question Correct Answer
Vipassana Meditation
Visionary Missionary
Knowledge Worker Wisdom Worker
Tamas Rajas
Karma Destiny
Select The Blank
Question Event ________ has various ________ opportunities.
Correct Answer management
Correct Answer Career
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Some of the public insurance companies are
Correct Answer LIC , Oriental Insurance , General Insurance
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Fedrick Winslow Taylor's Mechanism of Scientific
Management includes
Correct Answer scientific task setting , planning the task ,
standardization of tools and equipments
Select The Blank
Question Under the principles of effective delegation, it is
said that never delegate and ________.
Correct Answer Disappear
Select The Blank
Question The higher the ________ level of the employee, the
lower the ________ satisfaction.
Correct Answer educational
Correct Answer job
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Who said, "Management is management of Men, Money,
Machinery Materials and Information?"
Correct Answer Anonymous
Select The Blank
Question ________ is the result of human limitation to the
span of management.
Correct Answer Delegation
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Learning organizations must possess what type of
culture?
Correct Answer Learning
Select The Blank
Question A ________ faced by the retail business is the
________ aspect.
Correct Answer challenge
Correct Answer cultural
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The different A's of the service sector are
Correct Answer acceptability , awareness , availability
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Question Some of the external factors that limit control are
Correct Answer govt. policies , market changes , economic
changes
True/False
Question the heart of administration is the directing function.
Correct Answer True
True/False
Question Service denotes physical transfer of goods.
Correct Answer False
True/False
Question For effective control, different departments should
have uniform systems of control.
Correct Answer False
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question As organizations increase their products, market
diversity etc, for what type of people does the demand increase?
Correct Answer General Managers
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Question The objective in corporate governance are
Correct Answer shareholders value maximization , growth , stability
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Name the department which plays a major role in
developing a learning organization
Correct Answer MIS
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Communication barriers in the international
environment are
Correct Answer Loss by transmission , Loss by poor retention , Poor
listening
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question What criterion is that which the SBU must meet which
is neither too large nor too small?
Correct Answer Proper size
Select The Blank
Question Management is a creative and________process.
Correct Answer continuous
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The old control techniques which were used through
years are
Correct Answer unity of policies , break-
control
Select The Blank
Question Individuals have different ________ of management
categories such as democratic, ________, bureaucratic, etc.
Correct Answer styles
Correct Answer autocratic
True/False
Question Economic considerations do not affect the choice of
span.
Correct Answer False
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question How many event management companies are there in Pune?
Correct Answer 215
True/False
Question Developing effective control is one of the weaknesses
of MBO
Correct Answer False
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The summary of important trends in retailing are
Correct Answer market concentration , global players vs. local
players , non store retailing
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Who is the father of Intelligence Quotient ?
Correct Answer Alfred Bennet
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Research into the average Indian buying habits have
brought about the following facts
Correct Answer they prefer to pay in cash , they like to touch and
feel the merchandise , they want attention to be given to all members
of their group
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Where is the attack on business families coming from
Correct Answer Transnationals
Select The Blank
Question Direction is a ________ function performed by all the
managers at all levels of the organisation.
Correct Answer managerial
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question In the insurance sector the rules governing Indian
companies are
Correct Answer min. paid up capital of Rs. 1 billion , domestic
player cannot be subsidiary of foreign co. , no dealing in noninsurance
and non-
True/False
Question Development of the retail sector requires a slow
change in our mindset.
Correct Answer True
True/False
Question Succession planning is not a function of the Board of
Directors.
Correct Answer False
True/False
Question Indian business families are still avoiding joint
ventures and tie-
Correct Answer False
Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Retailing categories based on ownership arrangement
would be
Correct Answer Super Markets , Consumer Durables Stores ,
Departmental Stores