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At which level of management hierarchy intellectual skill is the most important & vital?

  1. Lower

  2. Middle

  3. Higher

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The top level managers require more conceptual skills and less technical skill. Conceptual skills involve intellectual skills which include the formulation of ideas, conceptualization about abstract and complex situations. Using these skills, managers must be able to see the organization as a whole. They have to understand the relationships among various subunits, and visualize how organization fits into its broader environment.

Frederick Taylor, Frank and Lillian Gilberth strongly supported an approach to management involving the use of scientific method. This approach is known as _________.

  1. the quantitative management

  2. management science

  3. scientific management

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: C

What is communication that flows from a higher level to, one or more lower level in the organization?

  1. Horizontal communication

  2. Upward communication

  3. Downward communication

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: D

Management is an art because it involves use of _______.

  1. experience and intelligence

  2. creativity and personalization

  3. skills and knowhow

  4. none of the above.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Every individual manger has its own thoughts and his own knowledge which let it achieve the goal of organisation in most efficient way unlike science which gives principles and theories which have to be universally true and is independent on the knowledge and skill of a manager. Thus management involves creativity and personalization.

According to Katz which one of the following is a combination of technical Human and conceptual skills?

  1. Analytical skills

  2. Management functions

  3. Managerial skills

  4. Behavioural skills.


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is exact science?
1.Physics
2.Chemistry
3.Psychology
4.Mathematics
Select the correct answer from the options given below -

  1. 1, 2 & 3

  2. 3, 4 & 1

  3. 1 & 2

  4. 4, 1 & 2


Correct Option: D

Forecasts ___________________.

  1. Become more accurate with longer time horizons

  2. Are rarely perfect

  3. Are more accurate for individual items than for groups of items

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B