Principles and Practices of Management MCQs With Answers

Principles and Practices of Management

1. What is the planning horizon?

1. The distance ahead for the forecasts on which plans are made.
2. The time period within which uncertainty is very low.
3. The time ahead for which there is no information.
4. The maximum time for which managers can make plans.

Correct answer: (A)
The distance ahead for the forecasts on which plans are made.

2. While guiding organization members in appropriate directions, a manager exhibits ______________

1. Consideration behavior
2. Authoritarian behavior
3. Theory y behavior
4. Leadership behavior

Correct answer: (D)
Leadership behavior

3. Which role of manager that needs to resolve major and minor crisis that may occur unexpectedly?

1. Negotiator
2. Entrepreneur
3. Resource allocator
4. Disturbance handler

Correct answer: (D)
Disturbance handler

4. Group brainstorming encourages all of the following except ______________

1. Team building
2. Analysis of alternatives
3. Convergent thinking
4. Uninhibited verbalization

Correct answer: (C)
Convergent thinking

5. ______________ is not one of the eight steps in the decision making process.

1. Identifying the problem
2. Analyzing alternative solutions
3. Implementing the decision
4. Delegating the decision making

Correct answer: (D)
Delegating the decision making

6. All of the following are the levels of communication EXCEPT ______________

1. Intrapersonal Communication
2. Interpersonal Communication
3. Mediated Communication
4. Frame Communication

Correct answer: (D)
Frame Communication

7. In which organizational form are there dual or multiple lines of authority?

1. Matrix
2. Modular
3. Multidivisional
4. Decentralized

Correct answer: (A)
Matrix

8. Functional managers are responsible ______________

1. For a single area of activity
2. To the upper level of management and staff
3. For complex organizational sub-units
4. For obtaining copyrights and patents for newly developed processes and equipment

Correct answer: (A)
For a single area of activity

9. Which of the following is the determinant of organization structure?

1. Technology
2. Centralization
3. Size of the work unit
4. Coordination of activities

Correct answer: (A)
Technology

10. In communications management, to assimilate through the mind or senses is the process of ______________

1. Receiving
2. Decoding
3. Comprehending
4. Understanding

Correct answer: (B)
Decoding

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