Organising

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

5.1 Concept and Importance

MCQ

1 The process of defining and grouping the activities of the enterprise and establishing authority relationship among them is:

1. Directing (b) Staffing
2. Management (d) Organising

(4 marks)

1. 'Rainbow World School' planned its annual alumni meet to get in touch with old students. Task groups like invitation committee, decoration committee and food committee were formed and placed under the overall supervision of the official in-charge of the event. Reporting relationships were established among various groups to enable smooth interaction and clarity about each group's contribution towards the event.
2. Planning (b) Directing
3. Organising (d) Staffing (Term-I, 2021-22) (U

1. The process that initiates implementation of plans by clarifying jobs, working relationships and effectively deploying resources for attainment of identified and desired results is called:
2. Coordination (b) Management
3. Organising (d) Delegation. (Term-I, 2021-22)

VSA (1 mark)

1. Define 'Organising'. (NCERT, Al 2019) R OR Define 'organising' as a function of management. (Delhi 2014 C, Al 2014)
2. Differentiate between 'formal' and 'informal' organisation on the basis of 'origin'. (Delhi 2017)

1. Alliance Ltd. is engaged in manufacturing plastic (b) Departmentalisation

buckets. The objective of the company is to (c) Assignment of duties

manufacture 100 buckets a day. To achieve this, (d) Establishing reporting relationships. (2021 C)

the efforts of all departments are co-ordinated and interlinked and authority-responsibility relationship is established among various job positions. There is Give the meaning of 'organising as a process'.

clarity on who is to report to whom. (Al 2016) R

Name the function of management discussed above. (Delhi 2015)

7 To make the sports day of the school successful, the Headmaster of the school divided all the activities into

task group, each dealing with a specific area like holding

of events, arrangement of medals, refreshments etc.

Each group was placed under the overall supervision

of a senior teacher. The physical education teacher

was made responsible for holding different events, the

home science teacher for refreshment and the maths

teacher for medals.

Identify the function of management performed by the

Headmaster in doing so. (AI 2015 C) U

Explain any four points of importance of 'Organising'.

(Delhi 2019)

5.2 Organising Process

MCQ

1. Which one of the following is not a step in the process of 'organising'?
2. Identification and division of work
3. Departmentalisation
4. Span of management
5. Assignment of duties

(Delhi, Term-I, 2021-22) [An]

1. 'While performing the organising function, jobs are allocated to the members of each department in accordance with their skills and competencies." Identify the step in the organising function being discussed above:
2. Identification and division of work.
3. Departmentalisation.
4. Assignment of duties.
5. Establishment of reporting relationship.

(Term I, 2021-22)

1. The step of 'organising' process in which each individual comes to know from whom he has to take orders and to whom he is accountable is called:
2. Identification and division of work

VSA (1 mark)

SA II (4 marks)

Organising involves a series of steps that need to be

taken in order to achieve the desired goal. Explain

these steps. (Delhi 2019)

5.3 Structure of Organisation- Functional and Divisional- Concept. Formal and Informal Organisation-Concept

(c)

MCQ

1. Which type of organisation structure has a likely disadvantage of pursuing departmental interests at the cost of organisational interests leading to creation of functional empires wherein importance of a particular function may be over-emphasised?
2. Formal organisational structure
3. Functional organisational structure
4. Divisional organisational structure
5. Informal organisational structure

(Term-I, 2021-22) An

1. The framework within which managerial and operating tasks are performed, which specifies the relationship between people, work and resources and allows coordination among different resources to accomplish desired goals is known as
2. Organisation chart
3. Levels of management
4. Span of management
5. Organisation structure (Term-I, 2021-22)

The type of organisational structure in which jobs of similar nature are grouped together on the basis of functions to form departments is called:

1. Functional structure
2. Divisional structure
3. Informal structure
4. Grouped structure (Term-I, 2021-22)

1. Which organisational structure is suitable for business having a large variety of products?
2. Functional (b) Divisional
3. Informal (d) Vertical (Term-I, 2021-22)

1. Sunshine Industries which started off as a single product company has over the years diversified into varied product categories and the need for a more evolved structural design was felt to cope with emerging complexity. Suggest the organisation structure that would be suitable for Sunshine Industries now:
2. Functional structure
3. Divisional structure
4. Operational structure
5. Occupational structure (Term-I, 2021-22)

19 Agile Pvt. Ltd.' manufactures athletic footwear. Owing to its popularity among sports teams across the country, it recently decided to enter into manufacturing of sports clothing and accessories.

The type of organisational structure which is suitable

for the company is:

1. Functional structure
2. Divisional structure
3. Informal structure (Term-I, 2021-22)
4. Which statement is not correct, with respect to 'Organisation Structure'?
5. Ensures coordination among human and physical resources
6. Ensures smooth flow of communication
7. Specifies relationship between people, work and resources
8. Establishes standards for controlling (2020 C)

VSA (1 mark)

Ravi Jain was the Chief Executive Officer of Nath

Traders. He was worried about the heavy expenditure

on advertising. He asked his Finance Manager, Mohit

Verma to know the views of the Sales Manager

and his team regarding this expenditure. Mohit

Verma was thinking of calling a meeting of the Sales

Manager and his team after tea-break. But by chance

at the time of teabreak, Mohit Verma met with the

Sales Manager and his team in the canteen. They all

discussed about this expenditure and finalised to

give suggestion to reduce this expenditure.

Identify the type of organisation which helped the

Finance Manager Mohit Verma, the Sales Manager

and his team in finalising the suggestion.

(Foreign 2019) Ev

1. Name the type of organisational structure' which promotes efficiency in utilisation of manpower. (Delhi 2016)
2. Name the type of organisational structure which promotes flexibility and initiative. (Al 2016)
3. What is meant by 'functional structure' of an organisation? State its any two advantages. (Al 2015)

Define 'Formal organisation'. (Delhi 2015) R

State any one advantage of 'Formal Organisation'.

(Delhi 2014)

State the suitability of functional structure of

organising. (Delhi 2014 C)

SAI (3 marks)

State any three limitations of 'divisional structure' of an

organisation. (Delhi 2015) R

State any three advantages of informal organisation.

(Al 2015 C, Delhi 2015 C)

30. State any three limitations of informal organisation.

(Delhi 2015, Al 2015 C)

State any three advantages of formal organisation.

(Al 2015 C)