This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Commerce > Business Studies > Class 12 Business Studies Chapter 2 Principles Of Management – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Business Studies Chapter 2 Principles Of Management Quiz 22 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... skill is referred to as inter-personal skills. A) Efficiency. B) Technical. C) Personal. D) Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Communication. 2. The skills required by managers are A) Human Skills, Technical Skills and Conceptual Skills. B) Technical Skills, Mathematical Skills and Controlling Skills. C) Conceptual Skills, Listening Skills and Analytical Skills. D) Technical Skills, Learning Skills and Experimenting Skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human Skills, Technical Skills and Conceptual Skills. 3. What is authority? A) Number of employees. B) Power given to a person. C) Evaluating alternatives. D) Process of outlining the activities to achieves the goal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Power given to a person. 4. Talks about functioning of organization in terms of grouping activities A) Unity of Direction. B) Unity of Command. C) Centralization. D) Management. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unity of Direction. 5. The Hawthorne Studies concluded that group pressures can impact individual productivity. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. A change in the attitude of the workers and management towards each other is known s ..... A) Mental Revolution. B) Co-operation. C) Both a and b. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mental Revolution. 7. A manufacturing unit assigns repetitive tasks to workers to improve skill. Which principle is applied? A) Discipline. B) Division of Work. C) Initiative. D) Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Division of Work. 8. Which of the following is NOT an example of a constituency that makes up the specific environment? A) Competitors. B) Socio-cultural. C) Suppliers. D) Customers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Socio-cultural. 9. What are non monetary motivation factors from the following? A) Salary increase. B) Overtime pay. C) Recognition, job satisfaction, work-life balance, career development opportunities, flexible work arrangements. D) Bonuses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recognition, job satisfaction, work-life balance, career development opportunities, flexible work arrangements. 10. Management decreases A) Cost. B) Efficiency. C) Productivity. D) Production. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cost. 11. Dividing the work into small tasks is known as ..... A) Division of work. B) Equity. C) Discipline. D) Unity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Division of work. 12. A budget is an example of which of the following plan? A) Strategic plan. B) Single use plan. C) Informal plan. D) Standing plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Single use plan. 13. Which of the following best describes utilitarianism in business ethics? A) Focusing only on shareholder profits. B) Making decisions based on the greatest overall happiness or utility. C) Following government regulations strictly. D) Prioritizing individual employee happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Making decisions based on the greatest overall happiness or utility. 14. These are intangible products produced by the organization. A) PRODUCT. B) AUGMENTED. C) ALTERNATIVE. D) SERVICES. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SERVICES. 15. Patricia and her friends all take their cars to Monty's Mechanics because Monty's has demonstrated the ability to figure out complex problems and repair cars. Monty and his mechanics demonstrate ..... skills. A) Human. B) Intuitive. C) Conceptual. D) Organizing. E) Technical. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Technical. 16. ..... is a strategy in which an organization concentrates on a specific regional market, product line or group of buyer. A) Differentiation strategy. B) Focus strategy. C) Overall cost leadership strategy. D) Specific strategy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Focus strategy. 17. Employees should be aware of where they stand in the organization's hierarchy, or chain of command. A) Subordination of Individual Interests to the General Interest. B) Scalar Chain. C) Hierarchy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scalar Chain. 18. Max Weber influence which part of management flows? A) Resource based view. B) Administrative perspective. C) Scientific management. D) Human Relations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Administrative perspective. 19. A manager arranges materials, tools, and personnel to start a new project. This is an example of A) Controlling. B) Directing. C) Organising. D) Staffing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organising. 20. What factors cause change in a business? A) Internal factors. B) External factors. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal factors. 21. Which principle of management is concerned with fair and satisfactory payment for services rendered? A) Division of Work. B) Unity of Direction. C) Discipline. D) Remuneration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remuneration. 22. The job-specific knowledge and techniques required to perform an organizational role. A) Competitive advantage. B) Job-specfic. C) Technical skills. D) Human skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Technical skills. 23. The old control technique(s) which were used through years is (are) A) Unity of policies. B) Break-even analysis. C) Budgetary control. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 24. Which principle of management leads to specialisation? A) Division of work. B) Unity of command. C) Unity of direction. D) Scalar chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Division of work. 25. Sustainable growth meets present needs without harming the needs of ..... generations. A) Future. B) Past. C) Ancient. D) Current. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Future. 26. Excellent sales staff with strong knowledge of existing products A) Weakness. B) Strength. C) Threats. D) Opportunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strength. 27. In management process, the most misinterpreted word is A) Planning. B) Delegating. C) Controlling. D) Organizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organizing. 28. Planning is the function of management is- A) Secondary. B) Primary. C) Unnessessary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary. 29. ..... Decisions are repetitive in nature A) Major and supplementary. B) Organisational and personal. C) Basic and routine. D) Group and individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basic and routine. 30. Centralisation refers to A) Separation of divisions or levels. B) Opening new branches. C) Retention of decision making authority at the top level. D) Dispersal of decision making authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Retention of decision making authority at the top level. 31. An industry with a dynamic business environment faces the maximum amount of environmental uncertainty. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. What is the definition of an objective? A) A defined specified outcome to be achieved in the long-term. B) A clearly defined and measureable outcome to be achieved over a specified time frame. C) A clear set of goals to be attained given a set number of resources. D) D) set of standard of performance agreed by managers and workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A clearly defined and measureable outcome to be achieved over a specified time frame. 33. In a departure from mainstream management thinking, Mary Parker Follett believedSelect one: A) Conflict could be beneficial. B) Group dynamics produces positive peer pressure. C) Work specialization was the key to efficiency. D) Pay should be performance-based. E) Rules and procedures should be applied without favoritism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict could be beneficial. 34. What is the purpose of Six Sigma approach? A) To reduce waste in business processes. B) To increase inefficiencies. C) To maintain the current level of performance. D) To slow down production processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To reduce waste in business processes. 35. The Gilbreths were best known for A) Hand motion study. B) Body motion study. C) Therbligs. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 36. Which of the following Airlines used their Passenger Jets as Cargo flights during the Pandemic? A) Lufthansa. B) Kingfisher. C) Concorde. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lufthansa. 37. 'Three subordinates-S1, S2 and S3 receive orders from M1'. In such a situationwhich principle of management is being observed? A) Equity. B) Order. C) Unity of command. D) Unity of direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unity of command. 38. Which is not the importance of principles of management? A) Reducing competition fully. B) Providing managers with useful insights into reality. C) Meeting changing environment. D) Helping in taking scientific decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reducing competition fully. 39. It is grouping together of men, establishing relationship among them and defining authority and responsibility A) Planning. B) Staffing. C) Organizing. D) Directing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organizing. 40. Which of the following is a reason to use a stability strategy? A) To acquire competitors. B) To reduce business size. C) To maintain current operations with no major changes. D) To enter new international markets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To maintain current operations with no major changes. 41. ..... is a system of management in which most of the decisions are made by top management A) Formal organization. B) Centralization. C) Decentralization. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Centralization. 42. What do principles of management mainly focus on? A) Influencing human behavior. B) Managing material resources. C) Establishing cause and effect relationships. D) Solving complex business problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Influencing human behavior. 43. The circular economy is a regenerative, collaborative economic system that contrasts with the linear economy by minimizing input, waste, emissions, and ..... leakage. A) Water. B) Carbon. C) Energy. D) Material. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy. 44. What is the meaning of the term 'Span of Management'? A) The number of employees a manager can effectively supervise. B) The distance between managers in an organization. C) The width of a management chart. D) The time duration for a management task. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of employees a manager can effectively supervise. 45. Policies, procedures and rules in feedforward control can help to reduced the undesired behaviours among employees. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 46. It is the work or duty assigned to a particular position A) Authority. B) Authority and responsibility. C) Responsibility. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Responsibility. 47. Which theory is closely tied to Rawls' veil of ignorance and proposes that a just society is one that individuals would agree to if they were behind the veil of ignorance? A) Social Contract Theory. B) Libertarianism. C) Communitarianism. D) Utilitarianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Contract Theory. 48. Which of these is not a element of Direction? A) Coordination. B) Communication. C) Leadership. D) Motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coordination. 49. Manajemen mencakup empat fungsi utama yang saling berhubungan. Dalam konteks manajemen modern, berikut ini adalah salah satu fungsi manajemen yang berfokus pada pengaturan sumber daya untuk mencapai tujuan organisasi: A) Pengendalian (Controlling). B) Kepemimpinan (Leading). C) Pengorganisasian (Organizing). D) Analisis SWOT. E) Perencanaan (Planning). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pengorganisasian (Organizing). 50. A chronological sequence of steps to be undertaken to enforce a policy and to attain an objective is known as ..... A) Procedures. B) Strategies. C) Policies. D) Rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Procedures. 51. 6) Which principle prevents dual subordination? A) Unity of Direction. B) Unity of Command. C) Discipline. D) Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unity of Command. 52. The principles of pure science is considered to be ..... in nature. A) Flexible. B) Rigid. C) Creative. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creative. 53. Employees who are allowed to originate and carry out plans will exert high levels of effort A) Initiative. B) Order. C) Equity. D) Discipline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Initiative. 54. Which of the management tasks is the most important for a supervisory manager? A) Controlling. B) Planning. C) Staffing. D) Organizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Controlling. 55. Contract of employment contains ..... information. A) Job Title. B) Responsibilities. C) Allowances. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 56. Each group of activities having the same objective must have one head and one plan of action A) Unity of Command. B) Unity of Direction. C) Scalar Chain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unity of Direction. 57. Six Sigma aims to achieve: A) High waste level. B) 0.0034 defects per million. C) 3% defect rate. D) Unlimited defects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.0034 defects per million. 58. Which of the following is an effective way to reduce cross-cultural misunderstandings? A) Assume everyone interprets messages the same way. B) Avoid asking for clarification to save time. C) Provide cultural awareness training and use clear, simple language. D) Use complex vocabulary to sound professional. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provide cultural awareness training and use clear, simple language. 59. Which company did Taylor join in America in 1878 as a labourer? A) Bethlehem Steel Works. B) American Steel Company. C) Midvale Steel Company. D) None of a, b and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Midvale Steel Company. 60. Nora, a marketing manager at a tech company, regularly updates customers about new products and promotions through email newsletters and social media platforms. Which characteristic of marketing is being portrayed in the given scenario? A) Communication. B) Community content. C) Consumer content. 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