1. Management’s aspiration for the organization and its business is known as
- Mission
- Vision
- goal
- strategy
2. …… organization structure violates the ‘Principle if Unity of Command’
- line
- line and staff
- both
- none
3. Which one of the following does not fall under the scope of corporate level strategy?
- Products and services to be offered
- Customers and market segments to be served
- Action plan for managing particular line of business
- Allocation of major resources to business units
4. Delegation of authority refers to
- Dispersal of authority from a superior to a number or subordinates
- Transfer of authority from a superior to a subordinate
- Entrustment of authority from a superior to a subordinate
- Retention of authority by the top level management of the organization
5. When the subordinates are highly professional and self-directed, the best approach of providing leadership to them is
- Authoritarian (Telling)
- Paternalistic (Selling)
- Democratic (Participating)
- Laissez-faire (Delegating)
6. Job enrichment refers to
- Horizontal loading of job
- Systematic movement of a job holder from one place to another
- Vertical loading of job
- None of the above
7. Motivation-hygine theory of motivation is propounded by
- Abraham Maslow
- Frederick Herzberg
- Clayton Alderfer
- McClelland
8. Which one of the following is the cause/source of conflict?
- Incompatibility of goals
- Scarce resource
- Task interdependencies
- All of the above
9. Tick the most appropriate definition of group among the following
- Group is simply a collection of people
- Group is a collection of two or more people
- Group is a collection of two or more people interacting with each other.