“The span of control is the number and range of direct, habitual communication contacts between the chief executive of an enterprise and his principal fellow-officers”. This definition is made by
V.A. Graicunas
Appleby
Urwick
Dimock
Who among the following administrative thinkers defined organization as “a system of consciously co-ordinated personal activities of two or more persons held together by a capacity to generate a common purpose, by a willingness on the part of its members to contribute to its processes, and by effective communications”.
Herbert Simon
Chester Barnard
Luther Gulick
F.M. Marx
The concept “Span of Control” is related to the principle of “Span of attention” so ably described by
Dwight Waldo
Woodrow Wilson
V.A. Graicunas
M.E. Dimock
“Hierarchy consists in the universal application of the superior-subordinate relationship through a number of levels of responsibility reaching from the top to the bottom of structure”. Mooney and Reiley call it the
Acknowledged truths regarded as proven on which to rely
Scalar process
Proverbs
Span of attention
Which among the following countries offers a good example of a “disintegrated administrative system”?
U.K.
U.S.A
Japan
Canada
The progress of transfer of administrative authority from a lower to a higher level of government is called
Decentralization
Centralization
Both (1) and (2)
None of the above
The creation of autonomous states within the Indian union and of Panchayati Raj institutions within states is a good example of
Centralization
Participatory development
Unity of Command
Decentralization
‘UGC’ is a living example of
Territorial decentralization
Functional decentralization
Both (1) and (2)
None of the above
“Decentralization has a more important justification than mere administrative efficiency. It bears directly upon the development of a sense of personal adequacy in the individual citizen; it has spiritual connotations”. This well-known definition is made by
Charlesworth
James W. Fesler
Seckler-Hudson
Herbert Simon
“Organization engineering” is a term coined by
Henri Fayol
Urwick
F.W. Taylor
Luther Gulick
The book Principles of Organization was written by
Milward
S.C. Wallace
F.W. Taylor
Mooney
Who among the following administrative thinkers defined authority as identical with the “authoritarian power of command”?
F.M. Marx
Max Weber
M. de Gourney
La Palombara
“Hierarchy consists in the universal application of the superior-subordinate relationship through a number of levels of responsibility reaching from the top to the bottom of the structure.” These observations have been made by
M.E. Dimock
L.D. White
P.H. Appleby
L. Gulick
Who among the following administrative scientists formulated a measure to calculate the magnitude of supervision?
Lyndall Urwick
J.C. Worthy
P.H. Appleby
V.A. Graicunas
Dispersal of authority relates to
Principle of line and staff
Principle of span of control
Principle of committees
Principle of decentralization