Principles of Management Quiz

What is the process of determining the tasks to be done, who will do them and how the tasks will be managed and coordinated?

• Controlling

• Leading

• Organizing

• Planning

What is the main activity involved in organizing?

• Budgeting

• Staffing

• Grouping activities into departments

• Delegation

What is the purpose of job enlargement?

• To reduce boredom in employees

• To increase the degree of control that individuals have over their job

• To shift individuals from one position to another

• To break down a complex task into components

What is the process of dividing the organization into various departments or sub-units?

• Accountability

• Coordination

• Departmentalization

• Delegation

What is the arrangement and functional inter-relationship of the component parts of a company called?

• Organizational structure

• Job design

• Division of work

• Authority

What is the number of subordinates reporting directly to a manager called?

• Responsibility

• Accountability

• Span of management

• Authority

What is the extent to which authority and accountability have been retained at the top of the organization called?

• Coordination

• Centralization

• Decentralization

• Delegation

What refers to the orderly arrangement of group effort to provide unity of action in pursuit of a common purpose?

• Interdependence

• Division of work

• Coordination

• Delegation

What is the degree to which work groups are interrelated called?

• Sequential interdependence

• Reciprocal interdependence

• Pooled interdependence

• Interference

What occurs when organizational units must coordinate the flow of information, resources, and tasks from one unit to another?

• Interference

• Reciprocal interdependence

• Sequential interdependence

• Pooled interdependence