Test: Nature and Significance of Management- Case Based Type Questions- 1 - Commerce MCQ

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Das is the Managing Director of ‘Gamut Ltd.’, manufacturing different varieties of cheese. He has an efficient team working under him consisting of Rajat, the Production Manager, Vinay – the Marketing Manager and Adit – the Finance Manager. They understand and interpret the policies made by Das, ensure that their departments have adequate manpower, assign them the necessary duties and motivate them to achieve the desired objectives.

The departmental managers, Rajat, Vinay and Adit are working at which level of management ?

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A very innovative firm has decided to increase its sales. The company is good but they have noticed that their growth has stagnated for the last couple of years. The top management calls for an emergency meeting. For this, they have outlined a series of activities to be performed by each person. The people are told the activities they have to perform. Thus, the work is divided among individuals. The efforts taken by the firm turn out to be very productive for the organisation and it gains huge profit. The newspapers and management institutes also praise the company for its high standards of management. However, as time passes the size of the organisation grows and thus they think of bringing another concept of management with a lot of precision. This concept of management is not voluntary but rather based on a lot of clear cut thinking in advance. The main idea is to reduce confusion among the employees regarding any of the activities they have been assigned.

Find out one characteristic of the concept highlighted in the above case.

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A very innovative firm has decided to increase its sales. The company is good but they have noticed that their growth has stagnated for the last couple of years. The top management calls for an emergency meeting. For this, they have outlined a series of activities to be performed by each person. The people are told the activities they have to perform. Thus, the work is divided among individuals. The efforts taken by the firm turn out to be very productive for the organisation and it gains huge profit. The newspapers and management institutes also praise the company for its high standards of management. However, as time passes the size of the organisation grows and thus they think of bringing another concept of management with a lot of precision. This concept of management is not voluntary but rather based on a lot of clear cut thinking in advance. The main idea is to reduce confusion among the employees regarding any of the activities they have been assigned.

Identify in the above lines a concept of management discussed which the company tries to bring.

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A very innovative firm has decided to increase its sales. The company is good but they have noticed that their growth has stagnated for the last couple of years. The top management calls for an emergency meeting. For this, they have outlined a series of activities to be performed by each person. The people are told the activities they have to perform. Thus, the work is divided among individuals. The efforts taken by the firm turn out to be very productive for the organisation and it gains huge profit. The newspapers and management institutes also praise the company for its high standards of management. However, as time passes the size of the organisation grows and thus they think of bringing another concept of management with a lot of precision. This concept of management is not voluntary but rather based on a lot of clear cut thinking in advance. The main idea is to reduce confusion among the employees regarding any of the activities they have been assigned.

Identify the function of management highlighted in the above lines which the company follows :

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A very innovative firm has decided to increase its sales. The company is good but they have noticed that their growth has stagnated for the last couple of years. The top management calls for an emergency meeting. For this, they have outlined a series of activities to be performed by each person. The people are told the activities they have to perform. Thus, the work is divided among individuals. The efforts taken by the firm turn out to be very productive for the organisation and it gains huge profit. The newspapers and management institutes also praise the company for its high standards of management. However, as time passes the size of the organisation grows and thus they think of bringing another concept of management with a lot of precision. This concept of management is not voluntary but rather based on a lot of clear cut thinking in advance. The main idea is to reduce confusion among the employees regarding any of the activities they have been assigned.

Find out one importance of the concept highlighted in the above case.

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Sana is the branch manager of ABC Handicrafts Pvt. Ltd. The company’s objective is to promote the sales of Indian handloom and handicraft products. It sells fabrics, furnishings, readymades and household items made out of traditional Indian fabrics. Sana decides quantities, varieties, colours and textures of all the above items and then allocates resources for their purchase from different suppliers. She appointed a team of designers and crafts people in the company, who developed some prints for bed covers in bright colour on silk. Although the products looked very attractive and impressive, they were relatively expensive on the front of affordability for an average customer. Sana suggested that they should keep the silk bed covers for special festive occasions and offer the cotton bed covers on a regular basis to keep costs under control.

“Sana suggested that they should keep the silk bed covers for special festive occasions and offer the cotton bed covers on a regular basis to keep costs under control.” Which function of management is highlighted in this context?

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Sana is the branch manager of ABC Handicrafts Pvt. Ltd. The company’s objective is to promote the sales of Indian handloom and handicraft products. It sells fabrics, furnishings, readymades and household items made out of traditional Indian fabrics. Sana decides quantities, varieties, colours and textures of all the above items and then allocates resources for their purchase from different suppliers. She appointed a team of designers and crafts people in the company, who developed some prints for bed covers in bright colour on silk. Although the products looked very attractive and impressive, they were relatively expensive on the front of affordability for an average customer. Sana suggested that they should keep the silk bed covers for special festive occasions and offer the cotton bed covers on a regular basis to keep costs under control.

In the above case “company’s objective is to promote the sales of Indian handloom and handicraft products.” The above line focus on which feature of management?