Important MCQ Organization behaviour National Testing Agency (NTA) UGC NET

 

MCQ- NTA UGC NET 

1. Consider the following statements

1. The terms 'Management' 'Administration are synonymous. 

2.Administration is a wider term than Management. 

3. Management is a wider term than Administration. 

4. Management is a narrower term than Administration.

5. Administration encompasses activities like the spelling out of policies and objectivities, designing the organisational structure etc.

6. Management is concerned with those operations leading an organisation. towards success with is the broader frame work set up by Administration. 3

Select the correct code: 

(a) 1, 2, 5 and 6 

(b) 2, 4, 5 and 6 

(c) 3, 4, 5 and 6 

(d) 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 

2. Assertion (A): A manager dealing with trained subordinates can afford to operate on a wider span. Reason 

(R): Trained subordinates carry on their functions without very frequent reference to the superior.

Codes:

(a) A and R are true and R explains A. 

(b) A and R are true but R does not explain A. (c) A is true but R is false. 

(d) A is false but R is true.

3. What does 'Hierarchy of Authority' means?

1. The lower levels have to pursue the goals laid down by higher levels. 1.

2.The upper levels of hierarchy set the goals to be pursued.

3.The upper levels not take disciplinary action against subordinates. 

4. The lower levels have freedom to carry out the operations.

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 2 and 3

(c) 3 and 4

(d) 1 and 4

4. Howthorne Experiment are related to the:-

(a) Classical Theory

(b) Systems Theory

(c) Scientific Management

(d) Human Relations Theory

5. "Focus on social environment" is related to the :

(a) Human Relations

(b) Unity of direction

(c) Unity of Command and

(d) None of the above

6. Which pattern reflects a pure executive form of management? 

(a) Functional 

(b) Line

(c) Line and Staff  

(d) Committee

7. Which of the following theory is closely related to the bureaucratic theory of organization?

(a) Scientific Management

(b) Administrative Theory 

(c) Human Relations Theory 

(d) None of the above

8. Who said "organisation is the form of every human association for the attainment of a common purpose"? 

(a) J.D. Mooney 

(b) M. Monk 

(c) Luther Gulick 

(d) J.M. Pliffner

9. The Scientific Management Theory over simplified the workers : 

(a) development 

(b) imagination 

(c) motivation

(d) none of the above 

10. Who said "organization is the relation of efforts and capacities of individual and groups engaged upon a common task in such a way as to secure the desired objective with the least friction and the most satisfaction to those for whom the task is done and those engaged in the enterprises"? 

(a) Willoughly 

(b) Joad

(c) Waldo 

(d) Prof Gaus

 11. Who wrote Management and Moral? 

(a) Taylor 

(b) Roethliberger 

(c) Riggs

(d) None of the above

12. Who wrote Policy and management? 

(a) Dimock 

(b) Gulick 

(c) Apply by 

(d) Max Weber

13. According to Willoughby a standard scheme of departmental organization would include: 

(a) Office of chief clerk 

(b) Division of mail and files 

(c) Division of personnel 

(d) All of the above

14. Who stated that the four P's "Purpose, process, person and place" are the basis of organization? 

(a) Luther Gulick 

(b) Max Weber

(c) Henri Fayol 

(d) Dimock

15. Which of the following statements about the behaviour of organisations as system is incorrect?

(a) organisations,as systems seek equilibrium internally.

(b) organisations, as systems, seek equilibrium with their environments. 

(c)organisations as systems do not change once adopting to the needs of the environment.

(d) The equilibrium sought by the organisation is a dynamic equilibrium achieved by a constant process of adoptation to environment.

Answers keys 

1. (a) 

2. (a) 

3. (a) 

4. (d) 

5. ( a) 

6. (a) 

7. (b) 

8. (a) 

9. (c) 

10. (d) 

11. (b) 

12. (c) 

13. (d) 

14. (a) 

15. (c)