BUSINESS STUDIES

4/5marks 1. Which principle of management envisages that each group of activities having the same objectives must have one head and one plan? Explain the principle with a suitable example. 2. Which principle of management suggests that employees should be treated with justice and kindness? Why is this principle essential in management? 3. Which principle of management suggests that employees should not leave the organization frequently? Give two adverse effects if this principle is violated. 4. The production manager of ABC Ltd. instructs a salesman to go slow in selling the product, whereas the marketing manager is insisting on fast selling to reach the target. Which principle of management is being violated in this case? State any two consequences of the violation of this principle. 5. An organization follows principles of management. What are the positive side effects of each of the following principles of management on the organization? i) Scalar chain ii) Equity iii) Division of work 6. Mohan, the manager of a business undertaking is very lax with his fellow employees and subordinates. He does not give them parameters or rules for reporting to work or completion of assignments. Which principle of management is being overlooked and why? Five one violating effect. 7. Mohan, a manager very often speaks people at all levels, passing on instructions regarding his department and also other departments. Which principle of management is being overlooked and why? Give one violating effect. 8. Mohan, a manager expects his subordinates to adapt to the new environment and working conditions without giving them to settle down. Which principle of management is being overlooked and why? Give one violating effect. 9. The subordinates in a company receive orders regarding their work from different operative heads for the same task. Which principle of management is being overlooked here and why? Give one violating effect. 10. In a particular company, no importance has been attached to the suggestions given by the subordinates. In 2005, the company appointed Mr. Lotus as its Chief executive officer. He was an M.B.A degree holder from I.I.M Ahmedabad with an experience of a decade. On assuming the charge of his office, he started a sort of campaign asking for suggestions from every big or small employee of the company. In a very short time, there were about 10,000 suggestions. After studying them intensively

about 1500 suggestions were implemented in different fields. This campaign fetched the company an additional profit of 50 crore rupees. i) What principle of management will have been working behind Mr. Lotus thinking? ii) What will be the effect of implementing these suggestions on the employees? 11. What contradiction do you find in the principle of Unity of command and the technique of Functional Foremanship and why? 3marks 12. How does the technique of motion study help to improve the efficiency of workers. Give any two points in support of your answer. 13. Which technique of Taylor suggests that each worker should be supervised by specialists? Give the designation of any two types of specialists suggested by Taylor. 14. Name and explain the technique of Taylor which is the strongest motivator for a worker to reach standard performances. 6marks 15. Taylors principles of scientific management and Fayols principle of management are mutually complementary. Do you agree with this view? Give four reasons in support of your answer. 16. Discuss the difference between the contribution of Taylor and Fayol. 1mark 17. What do you understand by principles of management? 18. Name the two methods by which principles of management are derived. 19. Management principles are not the principles of pure science. Write any one difference. 20. Give one point of difference between principles of management and technique of management. 21. Give one point of difference between principles and values. 22. How are principles and values formed? 23. While practicing principles of management, why values cant be neglected? 24. How are principles of management formed? 25. What is the main contribution of the principles of management? How? 26. Why principles of management have gained importance these days? 27. Why is it said that the principles of management are universal?

28. Principles of management are guidelines to action but do not provide ready-made straight jacket solutions to all managerial problems. Why? 29. The principles of management are not rigid prescriptions. What does this highlight about the nature of principles of management? 30. The degree of centralization and decentralization depends upon the circumstances and situations of enterprise. Which characteristic of principles of management has been highlighted here? 31. Why are management principles used as a basis for management training, education and research? 32. Name any two new management techniques developed on the basis of principles of management. 33. In a company, there are four separate departments for finance, marketing, productions and human resource development. Identify the principle of management. 34. Distinguish between official authority and personal authority. 35. What is the positive effect of principle of division of work on the organization?

36. What is the negative effect if an organization does not follow the principles of division of work? 37. State the principle of remuneration of personnel. 38. What is the adverse effect of violation of principle of remuneration? 39. State the principle of initiative. 40. What is the positive effect of the principle of Espirit de corps? 41. What function does the scalar chain perform? 42. What is the positive effect of the principle of scalar chain? 43. What is the purpose of gang plank? 44. If an organization does not provide the right place for physical and human resource in the organization, which principle is violated? 45. Prince, the manager of a business undertaking is very lax with his fellow employees and subordinates. He does not give them parameters or rules for reporting to work or completion of assignments. Which principle of management is overlooked? 46. Paras, a manager does not distribute the work among his subordinates either according to their capability or proportionately. Which principle of management is being overlooked?

47. A salesperson is asked to finalize a deal with a customer. The marketing manager allows him to give a discount of up to 10% but the finance manager allows him to give discount of up to 25%. Which principle is violated here? 48. Workers should be encouraged to develop and carry out their plans for development.Identify the principle of management formulated by Fayol. 49. The management and workers have entered into an agreement that the workers will do overtime to cover up losses of the company. In return, the manager will increase the wages. But management later refused to increase the wages. Name the principle related to the above situation. 50. In Asfia Ltd., an employee has the objective of maximizing his salary, but the organizational objective is to maximize output at competitive cost. There was some dispute on this for a while. Eventually, the organizations interest was given priority over employees interest. Name the principle related to this situation. 51. The directors of Kanika Ltd., an organization manufacturing computers, want to double the sales and have given this responsibility to their sales manager. The sales manager has no authority either to increase the sales expenses or appoint new salesmen. Hence, he could not achieve this target. Is the sales manager responsible for not achieving the target? Which principle of management is violated here? 52. Fayol points out that the danger and costs of unnecessary labor turnover is one of his principles. Identify the principle. 53. What light does the idea of Gang Plank show about the nature of Fayols principle of management? 54. What is the premise of scientific management? 55. What was the belief of Taylor about workers-management relationship? 56. What is meant by mental revolution according to Taylor? 57. What is the greatest advantage of scientific management? 58. Complete mental revolution on the part of both the management and workers is found in Japanese work culture. How? 59. In one of the principles of scientific management, Taylor emphasizes that there should be equal division of work and responsibility between workers and management and management should work almost side by side with workers helping and smoothening the way for them. Identify the principle. 60. Name any two companies which have successfully implemented standardization and simplification of work. 61. What is the objective of method study?

62. Factory owners or managers relied on personal judgment in attending to the problems they confronted in the course of managing their work. Which principle of Taylor is referred to here? 63. What is required to ensure harmony among workers and managers? 64. Give any two ways to ensure cooperation between managers and workers. 65. Different techniques were developed by Taylor to facilitate principles of scientific management. One of them is Fatigue study. What is the objective of this study? 66. It has been observed that the prevailing situation in an organization is due to the violation of the principle of Order. What might have been your observations? 67. In your school, you observe that the books are kept in office, chalks in the library and office records in staff room. How will that effect the achievements of school objectives? Which aspect of management is lacking here and why? As a manager, what steps will you take to rectify the shortcomings? 68. Why does the principle of Utility of Command not hold good in the case of functional foremanship? 69. Taylors techniques of management are universally applicable. Do you agree? Give any four reasons in support of your answer. 70. Explain the following Fayols principles of management with examples: i. ii. iii. iv. Unity of direction Equity Espirit de corps Initiative