POM Chapter 1 Quiz

What is the correct explanation for increasing efficiency in the importance of management?

• Efficiency is the relationship between returns and cost.

• Higher efficiency will bring downfall to the organization.

• Management helps in increasing the efficiency by increasing productivity through the process of planning, organizing, controlling and directing.

• Efficiency is a stability and complementary support for top-line managers, middle-line managers and first-line managers.

What is the explanation for reduce wastages?

• Managers tries to reduce the cost and improve productivity with minimum wastage of resources.

• Management tries to improve wastage and delay the process of organizing, planning, staffing, directing and controlling.

• Management has storage system data that collects wastage and gather leakages.

• Management insists on efficiency and effectiveness in work through the process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.

What is the correct explanation for the importance of reducing absenteeism and labour turnover?

• Labour absenteeism and turnover increases the cost and causes many problems in the smooth functioning of the organization.

• Labour turnover benefits to an organization as the cost for wages reduces.

• Absenteeism increases the pathway and smooth functioning of an organization to increase the achievement of goals.

• Labour turnover helps an organization to achieve goals faster.

Which is the correct definition of management?

• Management is the process of understanding and cooperating tasks within an organization.

• Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling effectively and efficiently, with and through other people in order to achieve goals.

• Management can be define as a work done by top-line management in a slow and steady concept in order to achieve goals.

• Management is a work done by staffs to make sure an organization is operating effectively and efficiently through the process of controlling and leading in order to achieve goals.

Choose the correct management function.

• Planning, Organizing, Extracting and Commanding

• Planning, Organizing, Managing and Controlling

• Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling

• Planning, Organizing, Leading and Staffing

Choose the correct roles in decisional roles.

• Monitor

• Disturbance Handler

• Disseminator

• Liaison

• Spokesperson

Which of these are the management function by Henri Fayol?

• Coordinating

• Staffing

• Organizing

• Cooperating

• Controlling

What is the Theory X?

• The assumption that employees dislike works, lazy, dislike responsibility and must be coerced to perform.

• The assumption that employees enjoys works, creative and seek responsibility

What is the correct explanation of achieving goals?

• Management helps the organization in achieving its goals.

• It helps organization to effectively design their goals and frame plans and policies to achieve them efficiently.

• Management tries to integrate the objectives of individuals along with organizational goals.

• Management lacks ideas of making specific goals and plan without setting objectives for an organization.

Which of the component in the system approach that is FALSE?

• Inputs

• Achieving goals

• Feedback

• Transformation process