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Management and organizational behavior explore how individuals and groups interact within an organization. This hub covers motivation theories, leadership styles, and delegation. These topics are essential for commerce students and competitive exam aspirants.

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Management and Organizational Behavior Questions

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management ownership structures - cooperative society features, merits and demerits, formation and management of a cooperative society meaning and features of cooperative society cooperative organisation

If the objective for the business organization is self help as well as mutual help. It is _____________ type of organisation. 

  1. partnership

  2. sole proprietorship

  3. co-operative society

  4. company
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The basic principle of cooperation is inherent in the statement 'Each for all and all for each'. Members of co- operative help each other and voluntary join together with the motive of welfare of the members.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management ownership structures - cooperative society features, merits and demerits, formation and management of a cooperative society meaning and features of cooperative society cooperative organisation

Which of the following can be treated as characteristic of co-operative society?

  1. Voluntary association

  2. Separate legal entity

  3. Democratic management

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A Co-operative Society is an artificial voluntary association of people who work together to promote their economic interest and in order to achieve common goals. 

These society are incorporated with some social motives and they often have separate legal body and common seal. Even, all the members of a co-operative society can perform democratically in management.

Multiple choice pressure groups election, political parties and pressure groups recent social movements social movements in our time civics

What is meant by "Pressure Group" _____________________.

  1. Organizations that attempts to influence government policies .

  2. Government aided organizations .

  3. Mass movements .

  4. Public sector organisations .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Pressure groups are organisations that attempt to influence government policies. But unlike political parties, pressure groups do not aim to directly control or share political power. These organisations are formed when people with common occupation, interest, aspirations or opinions come together in order to achieve a common objective.

Multiple choice pressure groups election, political parties and pressure groups recent social movements social movements in our time civics

Organizations that undertake activities to promote the interests of specific social sections such as workers, employees, teachers and lawyers are called _______________.

  1. Self Interest Groups

  2. Movement

  3. Political party

  4. Non Governmental Organisations
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Usually interest groups seek to promote the interests of a particular section or group of society. Trade unions, business associations and professional (lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc.) bodies are some examples of this type. They are sectional because they represent a section of society: workers, employees, businesspersons, industrialists, followers of a religion, caste group, etc. Their principal concern is the betterment and well-being of their members, not society in general.

Multiple choice pressure groups election, political parties and pressure groups recent social movements social movements in our time civics

The decision-making of a movement is _______.

  1. Formal

  2. Inflexible

  3. Informal and flexible

  4. Self- centered
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Like an interest group, a movement also attempts to influence politics rather than directly take part in electoral competition. But unlike the interest groups, movements have a loose organisation. Their decision making is more informal and flexible. They depend much more on spontaneous mass participation than an interest group.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management markets and marketing meaning, nature and importance of services introduction to services nature and types of services

Tick mark the correct answer.
Which one of the following may not necessarily be an advantage of co-ordination?

  1. Effective supervision

  2. Unity of direction

  3. Creative force

  4. Summarisation of all management functions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Effective supervision, unity of direction, and the summarization of management functions are standard outcomes or requirements of coordination. Creative force is generally considered a separate aspect of leadership or innovation rather than a direct functional advantage of coordination.

Multiple choice civics understanding marginalisation marginalisation marginalisation in india our society

Hierarchy means ______________.

  1. A graded system or arrangement of a person or a thing

  2. Minor group

  3. Major group

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Hierarchy is a graded system or arrangement of persons or things. Usually persons at the bottom of the hierarchy are those who have the least power. The caste system is a hierarchical system and Dalits are considered to be at the lowest end.

Multiple choice elements of business sources of business finance - 1 classification & choice of sources of funds classification of sources of finance owned funds and borrowed funds

Transactional Analysis can give employees fresh insights into their own personalities.

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Partly true

  4. Partly false
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Transactional Analysis can give employees fresh insights into their own personalities- this is a true statement. There are 3 ego states in transactional  analysis. It also helps the employees to understand the behaviour of others.

Multiple choice organisation of commerce and management recent trends of business e-commerce and mobile commerce introduction to internet and e-commerce emerging modes of services

An IT operation success is in terms of :

  1. Technological value added to the organisation

  2. Its impact on other business processes and business units

  3. Decreased costs and increased revenue

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

An IT operation success is in terms of:-

1) Technological value added to the organization.

2) Its impact on other business processes and business units:-

A business process is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that in a specific sequence produces a service or product for a particular customer or customers. A business process may often be visualized as a flowchart of a sequence of activities with interleaving decision points or as a process matrix of a sequence of activities with relevance rules based on data in the process. The benefits of using business processes include improved customer satisfaction and improved agility for reacting to rapid market change.

3) Decreased costs and increased revenue

Revenue is the amount of money that a company actually receives during a specific period, including discounts and deductions for returned merchandise. It is the top line or gross income figure from which costs are subtracted to determine net income.

Reducing costs increases profitability, but only if sales price and number of sales remain constant. If cost reductions result in a lowering of the quality of the company's products, then the company may be forced to reduce prices to maintain the same level of sales. 


 

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

______ is a voluntary collective action to serve a common purpose. Whereas _______ is the orderly synchronization of group efforts so as to provide unity of action in the pursuit of common purpose. 

  1. Motivation; Co-operation

  2. Co-ordination; Co-operation

  3. Co-operation; Direction

  4. Co-operation; Co-ordination
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Co-operation is a voluntary collective action to serve a common purpose. Whereas co-ordination is the orderly synchronization of group efforts so as to provide unity of action in the pursuit of common purpose. Co-operation is a voluntary effort of employees. Co-ordination deals with harmonizing the work relations and efforts at all levels for common purpose.

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

Invariably the problem of organising arises only when _________.

  1. when group efforts are required

  2. when a small firm is to be managed

  3. organising is never a problem

  4. it is an irrelevant statement
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Organizing is the process of arranging resources and tasks to achieve goals. It becomes necessary when multiple people need to work together to accomplish a task that is too large for one person.

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

The three major functions of business organizations ________.

  1. are mutually exclusive

  2. exist independently of each other

  3. overlap

  4. function independently of each other
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The major functions of business organizations, such as production, marketing, and finance, are interdependent and integrated. They do not function in isolation; rather, they overlap to achieve organizational goals.

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

Coordination without cooperation may lead to dissatisfaction among employees.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Coordination ensures that efforts are synchronized, but without the voluntary cooperation of employees, the process can feel forced or oppressive, leading to dissatisfaction.

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

Directing the subordinates involves _____________________________.

  1. Delegation of authority and fixing of responsibility for carrying out the assigned duties.

  2. Guiding, Counselling and instructing the subordinates about the proper way of doing the job.

  3. Coordination of activities and authority relations throughout the organization.

  4. Classification of activities into convenient groups for purpose of division.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Directing the subordinates involves guiding, counselling and instructing the subordinates about the proper way of doing the job.Directing function of management starts issuing orders and instructions to subordinates and ends with getting things done by satisfaction of various need of subordinates..

Multiple choice business organisation management - process or functions, managerial role and levels functional areas of management levels and functions of management management functions

______ is concerned with both the "orderly" assemblage of human and material resources as well as the process of development of a structure of formally identified and distinguished tasks, roles and relationships that may be attributable to the various members so that they may effectively work as a group. 

  1. Planning

  2. Directing

  3. Organizing

  4. Staffing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Organizing is concerned with both the "orderly" assemblage of human and material resources as well as the process of development of a structure of formally identified and distinguished tasks, roles and relationships that may be attributable to the various members so that they may effectively work as a group. Organizing results in creation of an organizational structure which shapes the system of working. It can be defined as identifying and grouping different activities in the organization for the achievement of specific goal of organization.