Principles and Practices of Management

431. Which one of the following is not one of Drucker's five guiding principles of management?

  1. Making people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
  2. Enhancing the ability of people to contribute.
  3. To operate the organisation's status system.
  4. Integrating people in a common venture by thinking through, setting and exemplifying the organisational objectives, values and goals.

Correct answer: (C)
To operate the organisation's status system.

432. Which one of the following political leaders could not be termed a 'transformational' leader?

  1. Margaret Thatcher
  2. Mikhail Gorbachov
  3. Nelson Mandela
  4. Bill Clinton

Correct answer: (D)
Bill Clinton

433. Which one of these characteristics is most commonly associated with the 'rational goal' model of management?

  1. Worker welfare
  2. Health and safety
  3. Interpersonal relationships
  4. Productivity

Correct answer: (D)
Productivity

434. Which writer is most associated with bureaucratic structures?

  1. Henry Fayol
  2. Max Weber
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Mary Parker Follett

Correct answer: (B)
Max Weber

435. Which writer was concerned with the reaction of workers to key characteristics of bureaucracies?

  1. Merton
  2. Weber
  3. Gouldner
  4. Mayo

Correct answer: (C)
Gouldner

436. Who of the following is a leading writer on contingency theory of leadership?

  1. Rosabeth Kanter
  2. Joan Woodward
  3. Rensis Likert
  4. Fred Fiedler

Correct answer: (D)
Fred Fiedler

437. Who of the following is the industrial philanthropist?

  1. Frederick Taylor
  2. Seebohm Rowntree
  3. Henry Ford
  4. Max Weber

Correct answer: (B)
Seebohm Rowntree

438. Who of these is the entrepreneur?

  1. Barack Obama
  2. James Dyson
  3. Damien Hirst
  4. Mo Farah

Correct answer: (B)
James Dyson

439. Who was a major protagonist of utilitarianism?

  1. John Stuart Mill
  2. Thomas Hobbes
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Adam Smith

Correct answer: (A)
John Stuart Mill

440. Workers' acceptance of change is characteristic of what type of culture?

  1. Team culture
  2. Collaborative culture
  3. Group culture
  4. Collective culture

Correct answer: (B)
Collaborative culture

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