The process which involves the determination of performance standards, measurement of performance against standards, comparison between the two, identification and analysis of deviations, and corrective action for improving performance so as to match it with standards, is called
Organizing
Directing
Staffing
Controlling
The breaking down of organizational tasks into smallest possible components in order to take the benefits of specialization is called
Division of labour
Decentralization
Delegation
Centralization
Which is a logical corollary (consequence or result) of division of labour?
Delegation
Chain of command
Co-ordination
Decentralization
Using which principle are the organizational tasks and functions grouped into departments, divisions and sections?
Principle of unity of command
Principle of unity of direction
Principle of scalar chain
Principle of span of control
Co-ordination among the activities of a manager and his subordinate is called
Vertical Co-ordination
Lateral Co-ordination
Horizontal Co-ordination
Diagonal Co-ordination
Co-ordination among peers-employees working at the same level in organizational hierarchy is called
Vertical Co-ordination
Diagonal Co-ordination
Horizontal Co-ordination
Lateral Co-ordination
Who among the following emphasized that co-ordination can be achieved more easily in the early stages of planning policy making?
Parson
Mooney
Urwick
Follett
According to Mooney, which of the following is the foundation of the first principle of organization?
Responsibility
Chain of command
Authority
Controlling
Which among the following provide the criteria for decision-making?
Objectives
Rules
Procedures
Policies
Which among the following is the most effective tool of co-ordination?
Control
Authority
Communication
Bargaining
Who among the following used various kinds of communication networks to find out co-ordination effects?
Leavitt
Agyris
Reiley
Urwick
As a criticism of hierarchy, it is said of this principle that every employee tends to rise to his maximum level of incompetence. To whom is this principle ascribed to?
Fayol
Seckler-Hudson
Peter
Pfiffner
Who among the following was the first to notice division of labour in his ‘The Wealth of Nations’?
McGregor
Likert
Adam smith
Parson
The administration law that emphasizes that authority and responsibility go together is called
Parity of authority
Parity of command
Parity of authority and responsibility
None of the above
A process which involves principles or levels of graded authority that ensure a firmly ordered system of super ordination and subordination in which higher offices supervise lower ones is called
Hierarchy
Responsibility
Scalar Chain
Chain of command