Who mentioned that all big organizations tended to develop a bureaucratic structure which ruled out the possibility of internal democracy?
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Roberto Michels
None of the above
According to Weber, the birth and development of bureaucracy is due to
The growth of democracy
The growth of communism
The growth of capitalism
None of the above
The research team which conducted experiments at the Hawthorne Plant of the Western Electric Company at Chicago was headed by
Elton Mayo
David Easton
C. Barnard
B. Beetham
According to whom a formal organization is “a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons”?
Elton Mayo
C. Barnard
D. Easton
M. P. Follet
‘Gangplank’ refers to the need for ‘level jumping’ in a hierarchical organisation. This has been attributed to
Luther Gulick
Henri Fayol
Urwick
Herbert Simon
Grassroots democracy implies a strong dose of
Centralization
Delegation
Decentralization
None of the above
“Railway” is a
Line agency
Auxiliary agency
Staff agency
Both (1) and (2)
The Cabinet Secretariat replaced the Secretariat of the Governor-General’s Executive Council in the year
August 1946
August 1948
August 1947
August 1949
The book Elements of Administration is written by
Mooney
Urwick
F.W. Taylor
S.C. Wallace
“Co-ordination is the orderly arrangement of group effort, to provide unity of action in the pursuit of a common purpose”. This observation is made by
W.F. Willoughby
Terry
Mac Farland
Mooney
Charismatic authority is primarily based on the
Personal qualities of the leader
Impersonal qualities of the leader
Both (1) and (2)
None of the above
Who among the following distinguishes between “Substantive Supervision” and “Technical Supervision”?
Millett
Halsey
Barnard
Appleby
“Participative Management” tends to
Greater production
Lesser production
A sort of performance audit
None of the above
“Delegation is a mere myth of organizational theory”. This statement is made by
M.P. Follett
Mooney
L.D. White
F.M. Marx
“Delegation means conferring authority from one executive or organization unit to another”. This definition is stated by
Terry
Alan C. Reiley
P. Pfiffner
J.C. Charles Worth