Scientific Management is also known as
Socio-economic theory
Physiological organization theory
Psycho-political theory
Human behaviour theory
The word ‘bureaucracy’ was first coined by an economist of France. He was
M. Weber
M. Kaplan
Vincent de Cournay
K. Marx
Who founded the modern sociological study of bureaucracy and freed the term from pejorative connotations?
K. Marx
M. Weber
G. Mosca
T. Carlyle
Ideal, pure or rational type of bureaucracy has been described by
M. Crozier
K. Marx
G. Mosca
M. Weber
Who used ‘bureaucracy’ in his book? The bureaucratic Phenomenon to mean ‘an organization that cannot correct its behaviour by learning from its errors’?
M. Weber
M. Crozier
R. K. Merton
T.Carlyle
After the Second World War, the development of new management techniques evolved mathematically based models. This is known as
Scientific Research
Operations Research
Administrative Research
Social-science Research
The application of Systems theory to practice is known as
Contingency Administration
System Administration
Management
Both (1) and (3)
Who defined the principles of organization as “acknowledged truths regarded as proven on which to rely”?
L. Urwick
H. Fayol
H. Simon
C. Barnard
Who called hierarchy as the ‘scalar processes’?
Pfiffner and Presthus
L.D. White
Mooney and Reiley
L. Urwick
‘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’. This is defined by
H. Simon
H. Fayol
L. D. White
L.Gulick
The principle of hierarchy has been criticized for
Procedure through proper channels
Red tapism
Delay in disposal of cases
All of the above
Who said that “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”?
Fayol
Dimock
L. D. White
Graicunas
The exact length of span in an organization will depend on
The personality of the supervisor
The diversification of the functions
The caliber of the subordinates
All of the above
During recent years, the whole idea of span of control has come under revision due to the use of automation in
Administration
Information
The growing role of specialists
Both (1) and (3)
The length of the span of control has definitely increased due to
Planning
Devotion
Automation
Motivation