Principle of Management

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

2.1. Principles of Management- Concept and Significance

MCQ

1. The principles of management are guidelines to action but do not provide readymade straitjacket solutions to managerial problems.

The feature of principles of management discussed above is:

1. Universal applicability
2. General guidelines
3. Flexible
4. Mainly behavioural. (Term-I, 2021-22)
5. The application of principles of management is dependent upon the prevailing situation at a particular point of time.

The characteristic of principles of management reflected in the above statement is:

1. Flexible
2. Universal applicability
3. Cause and effect relationship
4. Contingent. (Term-I, 2021-22) 🕕
5. 'Management principles help in thoughtful decision making. They emphasise logic rather than blind faith'. This statement describes the following point of significance of Principles of Management:
6. Fulfilling social responsibility
7. Scientific decisions
8. Meeting changing environment requirements
9. Optimum utilisation of resources and effective administration. (Term-I, 2021-22)
10. The principles of management are said to be flexible as:
11. they aim at influencing behaviour of human beings.
12. they are general guidelines to action, but do not provide ready made solutions to management problems.
13. they can be modified by the manager when the situation so demands.
14. their application is dependent upon the prevailing situation at a particular point of time.

(2020 C)

V5A (1 mark)

1. Principles of management equip the managers to foresee the cause and effect relationships of their decisions and actions so that the wastages associated with a trial and error approach can be overcome.

Identify the point of significance of principles of management highlighted here. (Foreign 2019) [1]

SAII (4 marks)

Explain any four points of importance of principles of

management. (Delhi 2016)

An environmentally conscious multinational company

"AXN Ltd." follows certain well defined business

principles that result to minimise the employee

turnover. Following are some of the important

environmental factors followed by 'AXN Ltd.'

L Honour the law of every country in which it

operates.

н. Respect the culture and customs of all nations.

Ш. Provides clean and safe products to enhance the

quality of life throughout the world.

1. Develop a culture in the company that enhances individual creativity and teamwork while honouring mutual trust and respect between management and labour. From the above,
2. identify and state any one general principle of management and any one dimension of business environment.
3. also identify any two values which the above guiding principles and environmental factors are conveying to the society. (Delhi 2015 C)

XYZ Power Ltd. set up a factory for manufacturing solar

lanterns in a remote village as there was no reliable

supply of electricity in rural areas. The revenue earned

by the company was sufficient to cover the costs and

the risks. The demand of lanterns was increasing day

by day, so the company decided to increase production

to generate higher sales. For this, they decided to

employ people from the nearby villages as very few

job opportunities were available in that area. The

company also decided to open schools and creches for

the children of its employees.

1. Identify and explain the objectives of management discussed above.
2. State any two values which the company wanted to communicate to the society. (Delhi 2014) Ev

(5 marks)

1. Explain any five points of significance of Principles of Management. (NCERT, Delhi 2019)
2. Explain how principles of management help the managers:
3. in taking scientific decisions and
4. in providing the managers with useful insights into real world situations. (Delhi 2019) Ap.

41 (6 marks) (a) Initiative

1. 11 Explain 'Cause and effect of relationship' as a feature (c) Equity

of principles of management, (d) Remuneration of Employees

1. Meeting changing environment requirements; and (Term-I, 2021-22) R

1. Management training, education and research as significance of principles of management. (2023)
2. Explain any four characteristics of principles of management. (Delhi 2016)

2.2 Fayol's Principles of Management

MCQ

Sangeeta visited 'Smile Dental Clinic' for treatment of toothache. She observed that the receptionist was seated at the reception desk, the place fixed for her. Dental instruments were laid neatly in dental instrument trays and the used instruments were placed in the sterilisation area. There was a fixed place for everything and it was present there. There was no hindrance in the work of the dentist and she was working with her maximum efficiency. The principle of management followed at the 'Smile Dental Clinic' was

1. Equity (b) Discipline
2. Order (d) Initiative.

1. Each participant in a formal organisation should receive orders from one and only one boss and be responsible to only one superior. The principle of management discussed above is:
2. Authority and Responsibility
3. Unity of command
4. Esprit de corps
5. Unity of direction (Term-I, 2021-22) [II]

'Good Health Care' ensures that no doctor provides less favourable treatment to patients on account of gender, religion, occupation, language, caste, belief or nationality. They do their utmost to ensure that all patients are treated as fairly as possible. Identify the principle of management being followed by 'Good Health Care'.

1. Stability of personnel
2. Initiative
3. Order
4. Equity (Term-I, 2021-22)

Identify the principle of management given by Fayol according to which 'The intent of this principle is to produce more and better work with the same effort."

1. Division of work (b) Unity of direction
2. Scalar chain (d) Equity (Term-I, 2021-22)

1. 'This principle will give rise to a spirit of mutual trust and belonging ness among team members.' Which principle of management stated by Fayol is highlighted by this statement?

Pioneer Ltd. is dealing in fruit Juices and hair oils. To

ensure unity of action and coordination, it has made

two separate divisions for each product. Each division

has its own incharge, plans and execution resources.

Thus, both the divisions are moving towards the

same objectives through focused efforts.

Identify the Principle of management followed by

Pioneer Ltd. in the above case.

1. (b) Equity
2. (d) Authority and Responsibility (Term-I, 2021-22)

The Fayol's principle of _____ emphasises on

kindliness and justice in the behaviour of managers

towards workers. (c)

1. Equity (b) Discipline

VSA (1 mark)

Appliances India Ltd. is engaged in manufacturing

and distribution of home appliances since 1987. It

has a good name in the market as the company is

producing good quality appliances. It has separate

departments for manufacturing, finance, sales,

maintenance services and technical services to

achieve specialisation.

Since the areas of operations of the company

have increased and customers have become more

demanding, the company decided to modify the

existing principle of management to meet the

changing requirements of the environment.

State the general principle of management which

the company wants to modify to meet the changing

requirements. (Delhi 2019)

SAI (3 marks)

Vibhu joined as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of

'Mega Marut Ltd.', a firm manufacturing cars. On the

first day he addressed his subordinates saying that

organisations should have a chain of authority and

communication that runs from top to bottom and

should be followed by managers and subordinates.

He also added that for routine matters a worker can

not directly contact the CEO but in an emergency he/

she may contact directly.

Vibhu discussed an important principle of

management. Identify and explain the principle with

the help of an example. (2023)

Vaibhay Sharma was working as the Production

Manager in Crescent Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. To