Business Management MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Planning is looking ahead and control is looking back. Planning is the fundamental management function, which involves deciding beforehand, what is to be done, when is it to be done, how it is to be done and who is going to do it.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
A leader motivates his followers to work hard by offering them rewards is autocratic style. Autocratic leadership, also known as authoritarian leadership, is a leadership style characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members. Autocratic leaders typically make choices based on their ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice from followers.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
No smoking the factor is an example of rules. Authoritative statement of what to do or not to do in a specific situation, issued by an appropriate person or body. It clarifies, demarcates, or interprets a law or policy.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Departmentation is a part of the organisaiton process. Departmentation means division of work into smaller units and their re-grouping into bigger units (departments) on the basis of similarity of features.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The employees train themselves and they are self-motivated under free-rein style. Free-rein leadership, also called Laissez-Faire, is a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions. Mangers set objectives and employees are free to do whatever is appropriate to accomplish those objectives.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Letters, circulars, memos, bulletin, manuals, reports are example of written communication. A ‘Written Communication’ means the sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The term policy is derived from latin. Meaning “plan of action, way of management” first recorded c. 1400. policy.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Decentralisation means that each section has its own workers to perform activities within the department. Decentralisation can be understood as the orderly assignment of authority, throughout the levels of management, in an organisation. It describes the way in which power to take decisions is allocated among various levels in the organisational hierarchy.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
X and Y theory was introduced by Mc gregor. Theory X and Theory Y were first explained by McGregor in his book, “The Human Side of Enterprise,” and they refer to two styles of management – authoritarian (Theory X) and participative (Theory Y).

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Employees will be promoted on the basis of seniority is an example of policy. Seniority is an objective basis for promotion and so each employee is sure of getting promotion.