Category A
The highest level need in the need hierarchy of Abraham Maslow is:
Self-actualisation need
At which level of management directing takes place?
At every level
State the element of Directing which helps in implementing the principle of ‘Scalar Chain’
Communication
Name the process which co-ordinates human efforts, assembles resources and integrates both into a unified whole to be utilised for achieving specified objectives.
Organising
When something goes wrong in these areas, the entire organisation suffers. They are ----------------------
Key Result Areas
S Ltd assured their employees that in spite of the recession no worker will be retrenched from the job. Name the type of incentive offered to the employees.
Job Security
Name the style of leadership in which a leader gives orders and insists that they are obeyed.
Autocratic leadership
Every manager can direct his immediate subordinate and take instructions from his immediate boss. Identify the feature of directing.
Flows from top to bottom
This analysis would enable an assessment of the number and types of human resources necessary for the performance of various jobs and accomplishment of organisational objectives.
Workload analysis
Which principle is based on the belief that an attempt to control everything may end up in controlling nothing?
Management by exception
Indigo Limited has a staff of 300 people which is grouped into different departments. The organisational structure depicts that 100 people work in Production department, 150 in Finance department, 20 in Technology department and 30 in Human Resource department. Identify the type of organisational structure being followed by the company.
Functional structure
Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning. Here the assets refer to ________ .
Employees
Following a pre decided plan, when circumstances have changed, may not turn out to be in the organizations interest. Which limitation of planning is indicated here?
Planning leads to rigidity
Introducing employees to the organisation is called ________ .
Orientation
Under which training method, both the technical institutes and the business organisations jointly impart training to their members?
Internship Training
India continues to be a lower middle income country along with 46 others, while Sri Lanka has climbed to the upper middle income group for the fiscal year 2020, according to the World Bank's classification of countries by income levels, released on July 1, 2019. Identify the related dimensions of business environment.
Economic Dimension
It refers to the number of subordinates that can be effectively managed by a superior.
Span of management
According to this principle of scientific management, the employees should be rewarded for their suggestions which results in substantial reduction in the cost
Co-operation, not individualism
This technique of scientific management helps in development of the concept of assembly line which is widely used in automobile companies these days as well. Identify the technique.
Method study
Teacher asked one of his students to go in office . Before completing the sentence , the student said I got the message and brought chalk from the office, but the teacher wanted that he should bring the attendance register. Name the type of communication barrier
Premature Evaluation
According to Henri Fayol, if this principle of general management is violated, "authority is undermined, discipline is in jeopardy, order disturbed and stability threatened." Identify the principle.
Discipline
According to Taylor, "even a small production activity like loading figures of iron into boxes can be scientifically planned and managed. This can result in tremendous savings of human energy as well as wastage of time and materials." Identify the related principle of scientific management
Science, not rule of thumb
According to this principle of scientific management, "Scientific management has for its foundation the firm conviction that true interest of the management and workers are one and the same; the prosperity for the employer cannot exist for a long time unless it is accompanied by prosperity for the employees and vice versa."
Harmony, not discord
In order to boost and double India’s export of goods and services to over USD 1,000 billion by 2025, it is important to lower effective corporate tax rate, bring down cost of capital and simplify regulatory and tax framework. Identify the related dimension of business environment.
Economic dimension and Legal dimension
You consulted your doctor, but instead of saying you must eat apples, he said that you must eat Malus domestica. Which Communication Barrier might cause the Communication Breakdown between the two of you?
Use of Jargon