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This section includes 26 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith described the breakdown of jobs into narrow and repetitive tasks and called this as: |
| A. | assembly lines |
| B. | work denomination |
| C. | division of labor |
| D. | greatest common factor of work |
| Answer» D. greatest common factor of work | |
| 2. |
The management tool undertaken to find out the one best way of doing the thing is termed as: |
| A. | Job Analysis |
| B. | Merit Rating |
| C. | Job Enrichment |
| D. | Job Evaluation |
| Answer» B. Merit Rating | |
| 3. |
Who defined management as the art of knowing exactly what you want men to do and then see that they do it in the best and cheapest way ? |
| A. | Henry Fayol |
| B. | F.W. Taylor |
| C. | Mary Parker Follet |
| D. | Likert |
| Answer» C. Mary Parker Follet | |
| 4. |
Which school of thought had been developed on the idea that there is no single best method to find solutions to Managerial problems |
| A. | System approach |
| B. | Empirical approach |
| C. | Contingency approach |
| D. | Operational approach |
| Answer» D. Operational approach | |
| 5. |
According to which approach, management is a logical process and it can be expressed in terms of mathematical symbols and relationships? |
| A. | Empirical approach |
| B. | Management Science approach |
| C. | Contingency approach |
| D. | Operational approach |
| Answer» C. Contingency approach | |
| 6. |
Which of the following studyhelps to determine a fair days work and rest period to complete it |
| A. | Work study |
| B. | Time study |
| C. | Motion study |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» B. Time study | |
| 7. |
Which of the following thinkers believed that leaders are not born but also developed through proper training in human behaviour? |
| A. | Mary Parker Follet |
| B. | F.W.Taylor |
| C. | C.K. Prahlad |
| D. | Peter F. Drucker |
| Answer» B. F.W.Taylor | |
| 8. |
Which of the following study is aimed to determine and eliminate unnecessary and wasteful movements |
| A. | Work study |
| B. | Time study |
| C. | Motion study |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 9. |
A statement showing the minimum acceptable qualities of the persons to be placed on a Job is termed as: |
| A. | Job analysis |
| B. | Job description |
| C. | Job specifications |
| D. | Staffing |
| Answer» D. Staffing | |
| 10. |
The process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for the Job is called: |
| A. | Selection |
| B. | Training |
| C. | Recruitment |
| D. | Induction |
| Answer» D. Induction | |
| 11. |
Which is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people? |
| A. | Leading |
| B. | Management |
| C. | Supervision |
| D. | Controlling |
| Answer» C. Supervision | |
| 12. |
Which of the following management functions from the mid-1950s is no longer included in the basic functions of management? |
| A. | Planning |
| B. | Staffing |
| C. | Leading |
| D. | Controlling |
| Answer» C. Leading | |
| 13. |
All levels of management between the supervisory level and the top level of the organization are termed as: |
| A. | Middle managers |
| B. | First-line managers |
| C. | Supervisors |
| D. | Foremen |
| Answer» B. First-line managers | |
| 14. |
A manager resolving conflict among organizational members is performing what function? |
| A. | Controlling |
| B. | Commanding |
| C. | Directing |
| D. | Leading |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Fayol was interested in studying________, whereas Taylor was interested in studying __________. |
| A. | senior managers; effective managers |
| B. | all managers; first-line managers |
| C. | bureaucratic structures; chains of command |
| D. | administrative theory; macroeconomics |
| Answer» C. bureaucratic structures; chains of command | |
| 16. |
The quantitative approach to management has also been referred to by which of the following names? |
| A. | Sales optimization |
| B. | Management science |
| C. | Managerial theory |
| D. | Statistical reformulation |
| Answer» C. Managerial theory | |
| 17. |
Which of the following early advocates of organizational behavior was the first to argue that organizations were open systems? |
| A. | Robert Owens |
| B. | Hugo Munsterberg |
| C. | Mary Parker Follett |
| D. | Chester Barnard |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Based on his scientific management principles, Taylor suggested which of the following pay principles? |
| A. | Monthly salary |
| B. | Monthly salary with bonus |
| C. | Seniority pay |
| D. | Incentive pay |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Who was one of the first to recognize that organizations could be viewed from the perspective of individual and group behaviour? |
| A. | Robert Owens |
| B. | Hugo Munsterberg |
| C. | Mary Parker Follett |
| D. | Chester Barnard |
| Answer» D. Chester Barnard | |
| 20. |
According to Mintzberg's management roles, which roles are those that involve people and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature? |
| A. | Informational |
| B. | Interpersonal |
| C. | Technical |
| D. | Decisional |
| Answer» C. Technical | |
| 21. |
Which of the following early advocates of organizational behavior created the field of industrial psychology, the scientific study of people at work? |
| A. | Robert Owens |
| B. | Hugo Munsterberg |
| C. | Mary Parker Follett |
| D. | Chester Barnard |
| Answer» C. Mary Parker Follett | |
| 22. |
When an organization assigns specialists to groups according to the projects they are working on, it s termed as: |
| A. | Divisional structure |
| B. | Functional structure |
| C. | Product structure |
| D. | Matrix structure |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
According to Weber's ideal bureaucracy, what occurs when employees are placed in jobs based on technical qualifications? |
| A. | Career orientation |
| B. | Authority hierarchy |
| C. | Impersonality |
| D. | Formal selection |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
Without question, the most important contribution to the developing field of organizational behaviour came out of : |
| A. | Taylor Studies |
| B. | Porter Studies |
| C. | Parker Studies |
| D. | Hawthorne Studies |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
Managers with good ________ are able to communicate, motivate and lead to get the best out of their people. |
| A. | human skills |
| B. | conceptual skills |
| C. | technical skills |
| D. | visual skills |
| Answer» B. conceptual skills | |
| 26. |
Who developed a categorization scheme for defining what managers do, consisting of 10 different but highly interrelated roles? |
| A. | Henri Fayol |
| B. | Henry Ford |
| C. | Henry Mintzberg |
| D. | Henry Morris |
| Answer» D. Henry Morris | |