Question # 1

The following item is not associated with the directing function?

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Utilizing staff departments

Communication

Participation

Leadership

The primary components of organizations does not include

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People

Activities

Company history

Objectives and results

A first-line supervisor, in comparison to top level manager will spend more time in doing

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Policy making

Public relations

Strategic planning

Directing subordinates

The net result of division of labor is that

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It changes the authority- responsibility relationship

Increases efficiency

Causes every employee to have only one boss

All of the above

Negative motivational methods are based on threat or coercion and result in

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Low morale

High morale

Neither high nor low morale

None of the above

Leadership implies the existence of the following

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A Leader

Community of interests between the two

The Followers

All of the above

The tendency of making accurate diagnosis is dependent upon

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Identifying major obstacles

A definition of organizational objectives

Definition of objectives and identification of obstacles

None of the above

Under following market condition, sales forecast is particularly useful

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The demand has been historically stable

The demand has been historically unstable

Both A and B

None of the above

The following function is not normally listed as a major (line) function

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Production

Marketing

Accounting

Sales

Before presentation of all relevant information, the tendency that listeners may arrive at judgements is called

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Filtering

Pressure of time

Premature evaluation

Psychological distance

The final step in long-rang planning is

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Execution of the plan

Control to the plans

Establish strategies

Develop planning premises

Arrangement of the data in a matrix form is most basic characteristic of

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Descriptive statistics

Linear programming

Data analysis

All of the above

An informal leader usually has no basis for influence from

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Coerces

Position

Knowledge

Charisma

The Behavioral Approach emphasizes striving to increase production through

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Training of people

Development of people

An understanding of people

Motivation people

The communication pattern which is generally fastest and most accurate for simple problems is called

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Chain pattern

Centralized pattern

Circular pattern

None of the above

According to Tannenbaum and schmidt the following is not a primary factor of leadership

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External environment

Manager

Subordinates

Situation

The typical time horizon for long-rang plans for most of the organizations is

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6 months

1 year

5 years

10 years

The following level of management is more concerned with planning and organizing

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First level

Top

Middle

Only A & B

The requirement of an Effective communication is

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A receiver and encoding

Information and a sender

Information and understanding

A sender and decoding

Most clearly advocated managerial skill is

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Timidity

Integration

Indecisiveness

Procrastination

The main purpose of strategic planning is to

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Provides major objectives

Deal with the government

Determine operational goals

Establish intermediate strategies

Mechanical control system are characterized as

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Problematically looped

Quasi loop

Closed loop

Open loop

The conflict between worker expectations and the organizations conditions directly causes

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Unionism

Inefficiency

Job dissatisfaction

Absenteeism

The following style of leadership represents the extreme of centralized decision making authority

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Free-rein

Democratic

Authoritarian

None of the above

The following is not an element of administration

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Planning

Organizing

Controlling

Taking initiatives

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