What kind of staff function works as semi-autonomous profit centers, on the principle of ‘decentralized operation with centralized control’?
Personal staff
Specialized staff
General staff
Line staff
When a staff specialist is in possession of specified expertise and when the line manager often finds it difficult to challenge or ignore his advice, it is called
Control authority
Concurrent authority
Functional authority
Expert authority
An interactional and co-ordinating relationship among employees occupying similar positions and having similar status in organizational hierarchy is called
Lateral relationships
Line relationships
Staff relationships
Line-staff relationships
A policy which aims at giving time for conflicts to find their own natural solutions is called
Winning policy
Policy of compromise
Policy of attrition
None of the above
When the organization’s works is divided among employees, authority is distributed throughout the organization and obligations are created for the performance of assigned tasks and achievement of predetermined goals. This is called
Delegation
Decentralization
Centralization
Level authority
Which of the following can be used as a device to motivate the subordinate?
Decentralization
Responsibility
Delegation
All of the above
A wide distribution of authority throughout the organization so that managers at various levels have adequate authority to make their job-related decision is called
Delegation
Centralization
Line of authority
Decentralization
Decentralization is the result of
Centralization
Delegation
Responsibility
All of the above
Decentralization through creation of semi-autonomous divisions or profit centers is called
Federal decentralization
Delegation
Functional decentralization
None of the above
The most important principle which creates semi-autonomous divisions and in which the role of top management should be clearly defined, is known as
Delegation
Centralization
Decentralization
Chain of command
The process of pulling all the parts of the organization together so that decisions, tasks, activities and functions of all of its employees and their groups contribute their optimum towards the achievement of its predetermined goals is called
Motivation
Unity of direction
Co-ordination
Unity of command
Who among the following regarded co-ordination as pulling together of all the activities of an enterprise to make possible its working as well as its success?
Weber
Taylor
Parson
Fayol
What provides the blueprint of co-ordination?
Planning
Controlling
Organizing
Directing
The process of breaking down the activities into smallest possible components to take advantage of division of labour and specialization, and then recombining the activity components or tasks into jobs, and jobs into departments and other formal groups is called
Planning
Organizing
Controlling
Decentralization
Which among the following provides the mechanism for co-ordination?
Directing
Planning
Communication
Controlling