MCQ Questions for Class 12 Business Studies: Ch 2 Principles of Management
1. Henri Fayol was a:
(a) Mining Engineer
(b) Production engineer
(c) Accountant
(d) Social Scientist
► (a) Mining Engineer
2. The main objective of motion study is _____________
(a) To provide more work to the workers
(b) To find out labour cost
(c) To eliminate the rest hours of workers
(d) To eliminate the unproductive motions
► (d) To eliminate the unproductive motions
3. In management process, the most misinterpreted word is
(a) Organizing
(b) Delegating
(c) Controlling
(d) Planning
► (a) Organizing
4. Who is considered as father of Scientific Management?
(a) Harold Koontz
(b) Henry Fayol
(c) Gilbreth
(d) F.W.Taylor
► (d) F.W.Taylor
5. 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) Route Clerk
(d) Gang Boss
► (d) Gang Boss
6. How are principles of management formed?
(a) By experiences of customers
(b) By propagation of social scientists
(c) In a laboratory
(d) By experiences of managers
► (d) By experiences of managers
7. Unity of direction is concerned with____________
(a) One Head One Plan
(b) One Head Different Plans
(c) Planning by Production manager
(d) Planning by Employees
► (a) One Head One Plan
8. Harmony, Not Discord principle is concerned with ______________
(a) Management should share the gains of company with workers
(b) Investigation of Task
(c) Scientific inquiry
(d) Observation and Analysis
► (a) Management should share the gains of company with workers
9. Principles of management are not:
(a) Flexible
(b) Behavioural
(c) Absolute
(d) Universal
► (c) Absolute
10. Which of the following techniques and studies are concerned with F.W.Taylor?
(a) Fatigue Study
(b) Method Study
(c) Time Study
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above
11. Gang Plank means ____________________
(a) Indirect Contact
(b) Contact not allowed
(c) Direct Contact
(d) Appointment before Contact
► (c) Direct Contact
12. Which of the following is not concerned with F.W. Taylor?
(a) Motion Study
(b) Fatigue Study
(c) Method Study
(d) Scalar Chain
► (d) Scalar Chain
13. The word ________ denotes a function, a task, a discipline.
(a) Management
(b) Leadership
(c) Motivation
(d) None of the above
► (a) Management
14. How many principles are given by Henri Fayol?
(a) 16
(b) 18
(c) 20
(d) 14
► (d) 14
15. Name the organisational structure that assists in increasing managerial and operational efficiency.
(a) Functional structure
(b) Divisional structure
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of the above
► (a) Functional structure
16. Who said, “Management is a multiple purpose organ that manages a business, manages a manager and manages workers and work”?
(a) Harold Konntz
(b) Peter Drucker
(c) Kenneth O ‘Donell
(d) Anonymous
► (b) Peter Drucker
17. Which of the following is not concerned with the Henry Fayol?
(a) Unity of Command
(b) Scalar Chain
(c) Espirit De Corps
(d) Time Study
► (d) Time Study
18. Who is considered as father of General Management??
(a) F.W.Taylor
(b) Gilbreth
(c) Henry Fayol
(d) Harold Koontz
► (c) Henry Fayol
19. Which of the following can be tested in the laboratories ?
(a) Principles of Pure Art
(b) Principles of pure science
(c) Principles of management
(d) None of the above
► (b) Principles of pure science
20. Basic aim of Functional Foremanship is _________________
(a) Not to provide free time to workers
(b) To separate Top level management from Chief Executive Officer
(c) To separate planning functions from executive functions
(d) Not to divide the work
► (c) To separate planning functions from executive functions
21. Science, not rule of thumb, this principle was given by ____________
(a) James Lundy
(b) Henry Fayol
(c) Koontz
(d) F.W.Taylor
► (d) F.W.Taylor
22. Principles of management cannot be __________
(a) Defined
(b) Applied Everywhere
(c) Tested in Laboratories
(d) Part of business
► (c) Tested in Laboratories
23. Which of the following is NOT a Principle of management given by Taylor?
(a) Maximum not restricted output
(b) Functional foremanship
(c) Harmony not discord
(d) Science, not rule of the Thumb
► (b) Functional foremanship
24. Which of the following statement best describes the principle of Division of Work?
(a) Labour should be divided
(b) Resources should be divided among jobs
(c) It leads to specialization
(d) Work should be divided into small tasks
► (d) Work should be divided into small tasks
25. Espirit De Corps means _________________
(a) Union is strength
(b) Order
(c) Gang Plank
(d) Scalar Chain
► (a) Union is strength