Test: Principles of Management- Case Based Type Questions - Commerce MCQ

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Shruti, a student of management at MDI, Gurgaon, likes to relate what she has learnt in her classes during study to real life situations around her. She observed many situations while watching educational programmes on television that remind her of concepts of Scientific Management. In one such programme, factories manufacturing parts for products like automobiles, computers and mobile phones were being telecast. These factories had defined benchmarks during production and were continuously aiming at eliminating unnecessary diversity of products. Thus, they aimed at eliminating superfluous varieties, sizes and dimensions and devising new varieties instead of the existing ones. While watching the programme, Shruti realized that these companies could adopt one best way of doing the job in order to be more productive. She also felt that the employees of these companies were working for long hours continuously and needed to adopt certain strategies in order to improve their efficiency. The programme also showed a few interviews where some workers were found to be highly efficient as compared with a few others.

Which Scientific Management technique would Shruti suggest for these factories if they have to help the workers regain their stamina and enable them to work again with the same capacity?

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Amisha did her MBA from IIM Bangalore and decided to begin her own company. Now she is the proprietor of ABC Foods Pvt. Ltd. which is into the production of packaged foods and beverages. She has started on a small-scale but decided that there will be separate departments for finance, marketing, production and sales in her company so that later on when the scale of operations increases, the functions and processes are streamlined. She has plans for expansion over the next 5 years but plans to limit the major decision making powers to herself as she is yet to build a strong and reliable team. She has also worked out a fair and reasonable structure for the overall pay and compensation to be paid to the employees on the basis of a combination of various methods. She also wants to ensure that her employees stay with the company for longer durations so that the funds invested in their training do not go waste. Thus, she has taken some measures to minimize employee turnover.

“…she has taken some measures to minimize employee turnover.”

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Amisha did her MBA from IIM Bangalore and decided to begin her own company. Now she is the proprietor of ABC Foods Pvt. Ltd. which is into the production of packaged foods and beverages. She has started on a small-scale but decided that there will be separate departments for finance, marketing, production and sales in her company so that later on when the scale of operations increases, the functions and processes are streamlined. She has plans for expansion over the next 5 years but plans to limit the major decision making powers to herself as she is yet to build a strong and reliable team. She has also worked out a fair and reasonable structure for the overall pay and compensation to be paid to the employees on the basis of a combination of various methods. She also wants to ensure that her employees stay with the company for longer durations so that the funds invested in their training do not go waste. Thus, she has taken some measures to minimize employee turnover.

‘‘…but plans to limit the major decision making powers to herself.’’

Direction: Read the following text and answer the following questions on the basis of the same:

Amisha did her MBA from IIM Bangalore and decided to begin her own company. Now she is the proprietor of ABC Foods Pvt. Ltd. which is into the production of packaged foods and beverages. She has started on a small-scale but decided that there will be separate departments for finance, marketing, production and sales in her company so that later on when the scale of operations increases, the functions and processes are streamlined. She has plans for expansion over the next 5 years but plans to limit the major decision making powers to herself as she is yet to build a strong and reliable team. She has also worked out a fair and reasonable structure for the overall pay and compensation to be paid to the employees on the basis of a combination of various methods. She also wants to ensure that her employees stay with the company for longer durations so that the funds invested in their training do not go waste. Thus, she has taken some measures to minimize employee turnover.

‘‘…there will be separate departments for finance, marketing, production and sales…”

Direction: Read the following text and answer the following questions on the basis of the same:

Amisha did her MBA from IIM Bangalore and decided to begin her own company. Now she is the proprietor of ABC Foods Pvt. Ltd. which is into the production of packaged foods and beverages. She has started on a small-scale but decided that there will be separate departments for finance, marketing, production and sales in her company so that later on when the scale of operations increases, the functions and processes are streamlined. She has plans for expansion over the next 5 years but plans to limit the major decision making powers to herself as she is yet to build a strong and reliable team. She has also worked out a fair and reasonable structure for the overall pay and compensation to be paid to the employees on the basis of a combination of various methods. She also wants to ensure that her employees stay with the company for longer durations so that the funds invested in their training do not go waste. Thus, she has taken some measures to minimize employee turnover.

“…fair and reasonable structure for the overall pay and compensation to be paid to the employees…”

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After completing her Bachelors in Fashion Designing from a well-known college in France, Aditi has opened a boutique in a posh market in Kolkata. She has divided the work in smaller units and each employee is well trained to perform his/ her task efficiently. The sales persons are allowed to close a deal with a buyer by giving a maximum of 5 percent discount, whereas the decision to give any further discount rests with Aditi as the final authority. In the earlier period of her business venture, employees were asked to put in extra hours of work. In return she had promised to give them a special incentive within a year. Therefore, when the business was doing well, she honour her commitment by giving bonus to her employees. She also instructed her employees that communication from top to bottom should follow the official lines of command. However, she tends to be more biased towards her female employees, when it comes to solve the conflicts among employees.

Aditi tends to be more biased towards her female employees, when it comes to solve the conflicts among employees. Which principle is being violated here?

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After completing her Bachelors in Fashion Designing from a well-known college in France, Aditi has opened a boutique in a posh market in Kolkata. She has divided the work in smaller units and each employee is well trained to perform his/ her task efficiently. The sales persons are allowed to close a deal with a buyer by giving a maximum of 5 percent discount, whereas the decision to give any further discount rests with Aditi as the final authority. In the earlier period of her business venture, employees were asked to put in extra hours of work. In return she had promised to give them a special incentive within a year. Therefore, when the business was doing well, she honour her commitment by giving bonus to her employees. She also instructed her employees that communication from top to bottom should follow the official lines of command. However, she tends to be more biased towards her female employees, when it comes to solve the conflicts among employees.

“The sales persons are allowed to close a deal with a buyer by giving a maximum of 5 percent discount, whereas the decision to give any further discount rests with Aditi as the final authority.” Identify the principle of Management being followed here:

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After completing her Bachelors in Fashion Designing from a well-known college in France, Aditi has opened a boutique in a posh market in Kolkata. She has divided the work in smaller units and each employee is well trained to perform his/ her task efficiently. The sales persons are allowed to close a deal with a buyer by giving a maximum of 5 percent discount, whereas the decision to give any further discount rests with Aditi as the final authority. In the earlier period of her business venture, employees were asked to put in extra hours of work. In return she had promised to give them a special incentive within a year. Therefore, when the business was doing well, she honour her commitment by giving bonus to her employees. She also instructed her employees that communication from top to bottom should follow the official lines of command. However, she tends to be more biased towards her female employees, when it comes to solve the conflicts among employees.

Aditi has divided the work in smaller units and each employee is well trained to perform his/ her task efficiently. Which principle of management is being followed here?

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After completing her Bachelors in Fashion Designing from a well-known college in France, Aditi has opened a boutique in a posh market in Kolkata. She has divided the work in smaller units and each employee is well trained to perform his/ her task efficiently. The sales persons are allowed to close a deal with a buyer by giving a maximum of 5 percent discount, whereas the decision to give any further discount rests with Aditi as the final authority. In the earlier period of her business venture, employees were asked to put in extra hours of work. In return she had promised to give them a special incentive within a year. Therefore, when the business was doing well, she honour her commitment by giving bonus to her employees. She also instructed her employees that communication from top to bottom should follow the official lines of command. However, she tends to be more biased towards her female employees, when it comes to solve the conflicts among employees.

“Therefore, when the business was doing well, she honoured her commitment by giving bonus to her employees.” Which principle of management is being highlighted here?

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Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. is a very famous company in Indore and has many branches in different parts of the city. They also have major expansion plans as they expect that their customers will increase in number in the next two years. Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. produces a variety of ice-creams which are extremely popular in the city and one brand of icecream ‘Magic’ sells the most. Thus, the company undertakes the maximum production for ‘Magic’ and it contributes to their revenue to the extent of 25% and has the largest market share. The company has undertaken different strategies to ensure that they remain the market leader in Indore. One of the methods it follows is Differential Piece Wage System to differentiate between efficient and inefficient workers. It is so because the company believes that in this way its inefficient workers would be encouraged to perform better and improve their productivity. This will motivate them to be at par with the efficient workers. Thus, Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. has determined the standard time and other parameters on the basis of the work-study techniques of Scientific Management. It has been determined that the standard output per worker per day is 10 units and those who made standard or more than standard will get ₹ 50 per unit and those below will get ₹ 40 per unit.

Such a worker producing 7 units is termed as ………………..

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Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. is a very famous company in Indore and has many branches in different parts of the city. They also have major expansion plans as they expect that their customers will increase in number in the next two years. Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. produces a variety of ice-creams which are extremely popular in the city and one brand of icecream ‘Magic’ sells the most. Thus, the company undertakes the maximum production for ‘Magic’ and it contributes to their revenue to the extent of 25% and has the largest market share. The company has undertaken different strategies to ensure that they remain the market leader in Indore. One of the methods it follows is Differential Piece Wage System to differentiate between efficient and inefficient workers. It is so because the company believes that in this way its inefficient workers would be encouraged to perform better and improve their productivity. This will motivate them to be at par with the efficient workers. Thus, Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. has determined the standard time and other parameters on the basis of the work-study techniques of Scientific Management. It has been determined that the standard output per worker per day is 10 units and those who made standard or more than standard will get ₹ 50 per unit and those below will get ₹ 40 per unit.

Such a worker producing 15 units is termed as ………………..

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Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. is a very famous company in Indore and has many branches in different parts of the city. They also have major expansion plans as they expect that their customers will increase in number in the next two years. Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. produces a variety of ice-creams which are extremely popular in the city and one brand of icecream ‘Magic’ sells the most. Thus, the company undertakes the maximum production for ‘Magic’ and it contributes to their revenue to the extent of 25% and has the largest market share. The company has undertaken different strategies to ensure that they remain the market leader in Indore. One of the methods it follows is Differential Piece Wage System to differentiate between efficient and inefficient workers. It is so because the company believes that in this way its inefficient workers would be encouraged to perform better and improve their productivity. This will motivate them to be at par with the efficient workers. Thus, Tasty Ice Creams Ltd. has determined the standard time and other parameters on the basis of the work-study techniques of Scientific Management. It has been determined that the standard output per worker per day is 10 units and those who made standard or more than standard will get ₹ 50 per unit and those below will get ₹ 40 per unit.

What will be the earnings of a worker producing 15 units?