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Principles of Management NPTEL Week 2 Assignment Solutions
Q1.
a) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii) and (d)-(i)
b) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii) and (d)-(iv)
c) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii) and (d)-(iv)
d) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii) and (d)-(i)
Answer: c) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii) and (d)-(iv)
Q2. Statement I: Quality Management is a commitment to never being satisfied.
Statement II: There is always a concern for continuous improvement.
a) Statement I is true; Statement II is false.
b) Statement II is true; Statement I is false.
c) Both statements are correct; Statement II is not the correct explanation for Statement I.
d) Both statements are correct; Statement II is the correct explanation for Statement I.
Answer: c) Both statements are correct; Statement II is not the correct explanation for Statement I.
Q3. Which of the following statements is true?
i. The System Approach is based on a traditional perspective.
ii. “Organization as a social system” is a statement given by Chester Barnard.
iii. Close systems are sometimes used to simplify problems of a quantitative nature.
iv. The contingency approach is assumed to be a universalist view.
a) i, ii, and iii
b) ii, iii, and iv
c) ii and iii
d) iii and iv
Answer: c) ii and iii
Q4. According to Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory, which needs must be satisfied before an individual can progress to the next level?
a) Esteem needs
b) Psychological needs
c) Safety needs
d) Social needs
Answer: b) Psychological needs
Q5. Who is not from the era of behavioral approach?
a) Elton Mayo
b) Max Weber
c) Douglas McGregor
d) M. P. Follett
e) Abraham Maslow
Answer: b) Max Weber
Q6. ___________________ is the unwritten common rules and perceptions about relationships among people and between employees and management.
a) Corporate culture
b) Social Contract
c) Business Etiquette
d) Organizational Hierarchy
e) Workplace Regulations
Answer: a) Corporate culture
Q7. The TATA Nano plant in Singur, West Bengal, faced controversy and protest due to several issues like land acquisition issues, industrialization, and CSR in India is an example of:
a) Economic factors
b) Social factors
c) Cultural factors
d) Political factors
Answer: d) Political factors
Q8. Time and Motion Study was conducted by:
a) Robert Owen
b) Hugo Mintzberg
c) F.W. Taylor
d) Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Answer: c) F.W. Taylor
Q9. Which of the following are not the features of a Bureaucratic Organization?
a) Red-tapism
b) Division of Labour
c) Impersonality
d) Decentralization
e) Formal selection
Answer: d) Decentralization
Q10. According to the Principle of Unity of Command, what does it emphasize in organizational structure?
a) Each employee should report to only one supervisor to avoid conflict.
b) All employees must work together harmoniously to achieve a common goal.
c) Decision-making authority is distributed evenly among all levels of the organization.
d) Collaboration between different departments is crucial for organizational success.
e) Flexibility in the job roles and responsibilities.
Answer: a) Each employee should report to only one supervisor to avoid conflict.
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Principles of Management NPTEL Week 2 Assignment Solutions
Q1. Contemporary approach to management describes an organization using ____________.
a) Mechanical approach
b) Fragmented approach
c) Systems approach
d) Mechanical and behavioural approach
Answer: c) Systems approach
Q2. One of the reasons why studying the evolution of management is important is:
a) To remember the dates and to chart timelines
b) To understand the relationship of evolution of perspectives with contextual factors
c) To recall the names of important thinkers
d) To discard practices of the past entirely
Answer: b) To understand the relationship of evolution of perspectives with contextual factors
Q3. Select the thinker(s) associated with General Administrative Theory of Management:
a) Henry Mintzberg
b) F. W. Taylor
c) Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
d) Henri Fayol
Answer: d) Henri Fayol
Q4. Having a “standardized method of doing a job” is one of the central tenets of:
a) Scientific Management
b) General Administrative Theory
c) Contingency Theory
d) Systems Theory
Answer: a) Scientific Management
Q5. Which of the following is advocated by both Scientific Management and General Administrative Theory?
a) Initiative taking
b) Decentralized decision making
c) Division of work
d) Reporting to multiple managers
Answer: c) Division of work
Q6. Originally Hawthorne studies were done to examine the effect of ______________ on workers’ productivity:
a) Light
b) Social factors
c) Incentives
d) Shortening rest periods
Answer: a) Light
Q7. Which management perspective advocates that “jobs should be meaningful”?
a) Classical perspective
b) Behavioural perspective
c) Quantitative perspective
d) Both classical and quantitative perspective
Answer: b) Behavioural perspective
Q8. Weber in his theory envisioned an organization which will be managed on ___________.
a) Informal basis
b) The basis of context
c) Rational basis
d) Micromanagement basis
Answer: c) Rational basis
Q9. Which approach focuses on decision making for complex business problems like resource allocation, scheduling tasks etc?
a) Behavioural approach
b) Classical approach
c) Behavioural and Classical approach
d) Quantitative approach
Answer: d) Quantitative approach
Q10. “Change in one element will have an effect on the other element”. Identify with which technique/theory/approach/perspective this statement is associated:
a) Systems approach
b) Operations Research
c) Management of Bureaucratic organization
d) Need Hierarchy theory
Answer: a) Systems approach
Previous Year – Principles of Management NPTEL Week 2 Assignment Solutions
Q1. In which type of planning we find it is need to keep identifying alternative courses of action that can be implemented when the original plan proves inadequate because of changing circumstances.?
a) Strategic planning
b) Operational planning
c) Tactical planning
d) Contingency planning
Answer: d) Contingency planning
Q2. How many steps are involved in the process of planning?
a) 06
b) 08
c) 10
d) 12
Answer: c) 10
Q3. In some organisations management thinks planning will bring all objectives fulfilled which neglects their real work and efficiency and adverse effect is being faced by the organisation. What type of limitations of planning is it?
a) Functional level
b) Planning does not ensure success
c) Business level
d) Operating level
Answer: b) Planning does not ensure success
Q4. Managing risk is essential to bring out success of an organization. Sometimes unforeseen events occur which required to deal immediately. In doing all these, the need of ————-is gradually increasing. Fill up the blank
a) staffing
b) planning
c) controlling
d) budgeting
Answer: b) planning
Q5. Where do we find; all objectives are set by the leaders of the organisation as they are at the top level of the organisation and have clear understanding of the organisation to outline where they want to see the organisation?
a) Scientific management
b) Management by objective
c) Management by exceptions
d) traditional objective setting
Answer: d) traditional objective setting
Q6. How many major areas of traditional objective setting have your learnt from the lecture?
a) Seven
b) Eight
c) Nine
d) Ten
Answer: b) Eight
Q7. In which period the strategic management largely dealt with size growth and portfolio theory as it shifted from planning to a strategy?
a) 1990s
b) 1980s
c) 1970s
d) 1960s
Answer: c) 1970s
Q8. Which of the followings is one of the components of strategic management?
a) Multifarious change
b) Different dimensions
c) Making decision for the future
d) Environmental scanning
Answer: d) Environmental scanning
Q9. In which point of view, planning premises can be classified into two types such as – tangible and intangible planning premises?
a) Quantitative measurement
b) Existing assumptions
c) Forces and factors
d) None of the above
Answer: a) Quantitative measurement
Q10. We may sum up certain features such as- it is concerned with future assumptions, it shows the probability of future events and happening, it is based on past and present data analysis, it is done using statistical tools and techniques, it makes use of personal. What about these features are spoken of summing up?
a) Planning
b) Forecasting
c) Premising
d) None of these
Answer: b) Forecasting
Previous Course – Week 2 Assignment Solutions
Q1. Studying history of management is important because:
a) It helps in knowing about important management thinkers
b) It helps in arranging events in chronological order
c) It helps in understanding the impact of external forces on the organizations
d) Both A & B
Answer: c) It helps in understanding the impact of external forces on the organizations
Q2. Which of the following approach comes from the contemporary management thought school:
a) Contingency View
b) Human Resources perspective
c) Bureaucracy
d) Total Quality Management
Answer: a) Contingency View
Q3. Which one of the following shortcomings led to the advancement of management thought towards humanistic approach from classical approach?
a) Trained workers in standard methods
b) No appreciation for the social context of work and higher needs of workers
c) Working for maximum output rather than restricted output
d) Eliminating interruptions
Answer: b) No appreciation for the social context of work and higher needs of workers
Q4. _________ is/are the characteristics of bureaucratic form of organizations:
a) Impersonality
b) Formal Rules & Regulations
c) Selection of people based on intuition
d) Both A & B
Answer: d) Both A & B
Q5. Which of the following thinker/theorist gave the concept of Bureaucracy?
a) Max Weber
b) Henri Fayol
c) Peter F. Drucker
d) F.W. Taylor
Answer: a) Max Weber
Q6. Started out as experiment to study the impact of intensity of light on worker’s productivity, ____________ came out to be a turning point in how workers are thought to be assets to the organizations rather than just cogs in machines:
a) Time Study
b) Hawthorne Studies
c) Motion Study
d) All of above
Answer: b) Hawthorne Studies
Q7. How will a person be able to fulfill his/her self-actualization needs at work?
a) By being a part of work groups
b) With Assurance of safe work
c) By receiving recognition at work
d) When being given an opportunity to showcase creativity
Answer: d) When being given an opportunity to showcase creativity
Q8. Some of the commonly used methods in operations management are:
a) Inventory modeling
b) Linear programming
c) Break-even analysis
d) All of above
Answer: d) All of above
Q9. Totally Quality Management is a philosophy devoted to _______ & _________.
a) Continuous improvement, responding to customer needs and expectations
b) Standardization, linking of incentives to productivity
c) Both A & B
d) None of the above
Answer: a) Continuous improvement, responding to customer needs and expectations
Q10. Systems perspective of management talks about synergy which means:
a) Tendency of the system to run down and die
b) All the elements in the system are interdependent
c) Whole is greater than the sum of parts
d) Organizations are open systems
Answer: c) Whole is greater than the sum of parts
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