PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

  1.How are principles of management formed?                                                                          

  2.Why is it said that the principles of management are universal?                                                     

  3.Why is it said that principles of management are flexible?                                                     

  4.Which principles of management promotes team spirit?
  5.Who was the first to identity functions of management?
  6.Which principle of management suggests that a subordinate should receive   orders from and be accountable to one superior? 

  7.Who gave the concept of scientific management? What was his profession?                          

  8.Which principle of scientific management suggest the introduction of scientific investigation and analysis of management practice?                                                                             

  9.What is the basis of formation of scientific management?                                                      

10.Which principle of management is violated if an employee is asked to receive orders from two superiors?
11.“Workers  should be encouraged to develop and carry out their plans for improvements”. Identify the principle of management formulated by Fayol.                                                   

12.It has been observed that the prevailing situation in an organization is due to the violations of the principle of ‘order’. What might have been your observation?                             

13.Which principle of management is violated when a manager grants one month medical leave to a superior with pay and only one week medical leave to an accountant?                                     

14.Mohan a manager, expects his colleagues to get work out of subordinates    without giving them any powers. Which principle of management is being overlooked and why?

15.Which principle of management aims at securing the loyalty and devotion of the employees by giving them fair and just treatment?
16.Which principle of management envisages that each group of activities having the same objective must have one head and one plan? Explain the principle with suitable example.                                

17.If an organization does not provide the right place for physical and human resources in the organization, which principle is violated? What are its consequences?                                               

18.The production manager of an automobile company asked the foreman to achieve a target production of 200 units (Scooters) per day. But he did not give him the authority to requisition tools and materials from the store department. Can the production managers blame the foreman if he is not able to achieve the desire target?  

19.Name and explain that principle of Fayol which suggest that communication from top to bottom should follow the official lines of command?                                                             

20.Identify the technique of scientific management which are described by the statement given below:-

 i.When specialists supervise each worker.                                                            

 ii.Change in the attitude of workers and management towards one another. From competition to Co-operation.

 iii.When uniformity is introduced  in materials. Machine, tools, method of  works and working conditions after, due research. 

21.Hina & Harish are typist in a company having same educational qualification. Hina is getting Rs.3000 per month and harish Rs. 4000 per month as salary far the same working hour. Which principle of management is violated in this case?            

ANSWERS

1. They are formed by practice and experimentation.

2.  Because they can be applied to all types of organization :- business as well as non business, small as well as large, public sector as well as private sectors.

3. Because they can be modified by the managers when the situation so   demands.

4. Esprict De Corps.

5. Henri Payol.

     6.Principle of Unity of command.

     7.F.W.Taylor gave the concept of scientific management and he was an American mechanical engineer.

     8.Science, not rule of Thumb.

     9.Observation & Experimentation.

   10.Principle of unity of Command

   11.Principle of initiative.

   12.People and materials are not in suitable places at appropriate time.

   13.Principle of equity.

   14.Principle of parity of Authority and Responsibility.

   15.Principle of Equity.

   16.Unity of Direction

   17.Principle of Order

   18.No, the production manager can not blame the foreman because he did not give material from the stores department. Since he had no authority, he could not fulfill his responsibility.

  19.Principle of Scalar Chain.

  20.1.Functional Foremanship.

2. Mental Revolution

3.Standardization of works.

21.Principle of fair remuneration.